[84876] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PRIX - Puerto RIco Internet Exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E.Seastrom)
Tue Sep 27 16:58:54 2005
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>,
John Neiberger <jneiberger@gmail.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Robert E.Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:58:23 -0400
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0509272203220.24341@uplift.swm.pp.se> (Mikael
Abrahamsson's message of "Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:03:55 +0200 (CEST)")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> writes:
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Randy Bush wrote:
>
>>> Would it be improper to suggest that you pick a different acronym? :-)
>>
>> yes it would be.
>>
>> everything in language A has a strange connotation in some other
>> language B. e.g., my name is great fun in brit-english speaking
>> land.
>
> There is already an IX called DIX (Denmark) so PRIX should work as well :)
A few years ago there was also a small-scale (couple of hundred megs
of traffic, mostly netnews) exchange point known as the Avi and RS
Exchange. The acronym is left as an exercise to the reader.
---Rob
