[48917] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Woodfield)
Wed Jun 19 16:36:46 2002
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:32:41 -0400
From: Chris Woodfield <rekoil@semihuman.com>
To: North America Network Operators Group Mailing List <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020619185439.3E7F4AC@proven.weird.com>
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Time Warner agreed to do so as a condition of the AOL merger. Most other cable
companies are fighting this tooth and nail, and winning (see AT&T in Portland,
Oregon).
-C
> Was there not once upon a time there was a proposal to require cable-cos
> to provide what would effectively be layer-2 service to any IP provider?
>
> I think that requirement still stands in Canada, but until newer
> standards-compliant cable modems become more common it's "hard" to do
> and so nobody's doing it yet (and there is some whining on both sides).
>
> --
> Greg A. Woods
>
> +1 416 218-0098; <gwoods@acm.org>; <g.a.woods@ieee.org>; <woods@robohack.ca>
> Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; VE3TCP; Secrets of the Weird <woods@weird.com>
