[46624] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE-Phoenix info request
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@karoshi.com)
Sat Apr 6 17:17:44 2002
From: bmanning@karoshi.com
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To: woody@zocalo.net (Bill Woodcock)
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 22:15:19 +0000 (UCT)
Cc: mborchers@splitrock.net (Borchers Mark),
dlasher@clearskynet.net ('Donn Lasher'), nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0204050940340.19508-100000@woody.zocalo.net> from "Bill Woodcock" at Apr 05, 2002 09:41:50 AM
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> > It's not a MAE. All MAE's are listed at http://www.mae.net/
>
> ...which has never stopped some other early exchanges from calling
> themselves MAEs, just as there are exchanges that call themselves NAPs,
> other than the NII-defined four. Not suggesting it's a good idea, just
> that it's been the reality for a loooong time.
>
> -Bill
early days, MAE was not a service mark of Worldcom nee MFS.
folks can and did use the term to refer to this nifty thing
that we now call an Internet Exchange.
The MAE in Phoenix was originally constructed by Dave Siegel
and it ran from 1996 through 1998/9.
--bill
