[2877] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Worldly Thoughts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex.Bligh)
Fri May 10 12:30:45 1996
To: Erik Sherk <sherk@uunet.uu.net>
cc: David Schwartz aka Joel Katz <stimpson@stimpson.igc.net>,
Alan Hannan <alan@gi.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 May 1996 09:09:13 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 17:26:16 +0100
From: "Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net>
> >
> > Let's look at a hypothetical situation. ISP1 peers at MAE-E and
> > buys transit from MCI there. Now they ask Sprint to peer with them. Let's
> > look at how they reach sites on the west coast.
>
> This is a violation of the rules of Mae-East: it is not to be used for
> customer connections. ISP1 must have a private connection to MCI.
So ISP1 peers at MAE-East and has a private serial circuit to MCI
(or someone elses) router at the MAE (not using MAE infrastructure).
Same result. And same result even if ISP1 peers at the MAE and sends
all its traffic to any MCI site 'near' (in network terms) MAE-East,
ust as long as MCI gives the traffic to Sprint there.
Alex Bligh
Xara Networks
