[32326] in North American Network Operators' Group
[eggnog] Re: NANOG isn't NANOG anymore
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jamie rishaw)
Sun Nov 19 08:41:28 2000
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 08:38:33 -0500
From: jamie rishaw <jamie@arpa.com>
To: Craig Klingler <klingler@onramp.net>
Cc: EGGNOG Mail List <nanog@merit.edu>
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yes
i hereby call for vote to change 'nanog' to EGGNOG.
(the) Eclectic Global Gathering (of) Network Operators' Garble.
yes
let us register eggnog.org.
immediately.
jamie
Previously, Craig Klingler said:
>
> I'm working with a Japanese Company and for the first time realize what it
> means to say the Internet is Global. This company has a Tier 1 domestic
> backbone in Japan (covering the country of Japan and connecting to the
> Japanese major peering points). They also have partial ownership in
> undersea cables (fiber)that extend from Japan to the United States and Japan
> to the UK. So bandwidth and networking are not the problem. I'm sure my
> information is dated, but at one point I thought that 80% of all Internet
> traffic gets switched in the United States. Now, having studied the traffic
> patterns for our Japanese company and how much of the traffic stays in
> country, I would say I need to see some more data. But, I think I can
> safely say the United States handles the "lions share" of the global IP
> traffic, and will continue to do so until distributing hosting and caching
> make an impact.
>
> However, The NA in NANOG shouldn't apply any more. Political issues aside,
> at least ICANN saw fit to established three governing bodies for naming,
> ARIN, RIPE/NCC and APNIC. I write this more of an appeal, as this Japanese
> company wants to establish peering (not transit) in the US, and although by
> name, I recognize many of the "good old boys" in the Internet Tier 1
> Backbone discussions, I am not one of them. I have read this list for some
> time now, but this is my first post. I have seen conversations ranging from
> graduate school discussions to school yard scuffles, so I am ready for my
> share of daggers. My question is, how does the Internet get opened up to
> new International companies, such as the one I am working for? I know this
> has been tried before via Savvis and a recent group that I know Exodus is
> part of. I also recognize there is as much brilliance in NANOG as there is
> sarcasm. If this was a business issue, the suits would have made their
> zillions and moved on, which is why I'm writing NANOG.
>
> Thank You,
>
> Craig Klingler
> klingler@onramp.net
>
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