[2879] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Worldly Thoughts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri May 10 12:34:29 1996
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 09:33:36 -0700
From: owen@DeLong.SJ.CA.US (Owen DeLong)
To: nanog@merit.edu, jfbb@atmnet.net
> >From: Erik Sherk[SMTP:sherk@uunet.uu.net]
>
> >> From: David Schwartz aka Joel Katz[SMTP:stimpson@stimpson.igc.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.
> >
> >Erik
>
> Are you saying that MFS will not allow a private connection between two
> routers located at the MAE facility, even if the connection is _not_ made
> using the MAE FDDI switch, but is instead a direct (e.g. HSSI or AIP)
> connection between the two routers?? If so, I haven't seen any
> documentation to that effect...
> --
> Jim Browning
>
>
>
I interpret it slightly differently. I think he is saying that if you
buy transit from MCI, you can't do it across MAE East, but instead would
need a private connection to MCI. Presumably this could be done at the
MAE East site, as long as it did not congest the MAE East net.
Owen
