[46625] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE-Phoenix info request
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Sat Apr 6 17:24:54 2002
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 17:24:21 -0500
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: bmanning@karoshi.com
Cc: Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net>,
Borchers Mark <mborchers@splitrock.net>,
'Donn Lasher' <dlasher@clearskynet.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:15:19PM +0000, bmanning@karoshi.com wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> 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.
Or companies like http://www.maedulles.net/ who aren't exchange points at
all.
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