[4054] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: customers and web servers and level one naps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Thu Sep 5 15:53:52 1996
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 12:35:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.94.960905132317.10907P-100000@unix1.netaxs.com>
On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Gordon Cook wrote:
> What are the positions of Ameritech, sprint, pac bell and MFS on two
> issues?
Who cares? It's a business decision.
> First having someone at a NAP who is there as a customer of one of the
> Second: allowing such a customer, or an NSP, to attach web services
> directly to the FDDI ring at the NAP.
First, there is a difference between a NAP and an exchange point. NAP's
are quasi-government-sponsored exchange points or in other words, a NAP is
a special sort of XP.
> PAIX is doing this. As far as I know the other major interchange provider
> are not. I am wondering why.
Digital's new XP is doing this. http://www.ix.digital.com/ for more info.
Other XP's do it too if it makes business sense. The market will figure
out whether it makes sense or not.
Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting
Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049
http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
