[2499] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CIDR,Sprint and the Big Guys.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher E. Stefan)
Sun Apr 7 14:44:26 1996
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 11:40:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Christopher E. Stefan" <flatline@ironhorse.com>
To: "Justin W. Newton" <justin@erols.com>
cc: Tim Salo <salo@msc.edu>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960405200249.00686e88@pop.erols.com>
On Fri, 5 Apr 1996, Justin W. Newton wrote:
> I have worked for 3 ISP's in the past several years. Of the three 2 peer at
> the MAE (actually the connection for one of them is still sitting in
> MaBell's in box). This is a prohibitively small sample to be useful though.
> At most the number of ISP's dualhoming must be <= the number of assigned
> ASN#'s. As for leaving their NSP, I am not sure that many are doing that.
> Its hard as hell to do without killling your customers.
Well in the Seattle area there are at least 3 providers who have switched
NSPs over the years. Of course, as far as I know, all of them had portable
address space at the time.
Christopher E Stefan http://www.ironhorse.com/~flatline
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