[94] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EP.NET ???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Siegel)
Fri Jul 28 20:51:58 1995
From: Dave Siegel <dsiegel@net99.net>
To: roll@stupi.se (Peter Lothberg)
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 17:49:25 -0700 (MST)
Cc: bmanning@isi.edu, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <CMM.0.90.0.806972758.roll@Junk.Stupi.SE> from "Peter Lothberg" at Jul 29, 95 01:05:58 am
> > There have been a number of questions that have been fielded
> > wrt the EP.NET domain and traceroute failures within that
> > domain. For your edification, here is a brief note on the EP.NET
> > domain.
>
> Personally I think that this is actually a value-subtracted service,
> as the EP.NET organisation does not run the named boxes, or the
> exchange points.
>
> It would be much more helpfull the the interfaces that faces the NAP
> and another provider where following each providers naming
> conventions, and had a domain-name that would point the users to the
> organisation that actually operates the boxes.
>
> You can still provide the service of running the nameservice.
I would tend to agree with this. I've had a number of customers ask me
"what the heck is this ep.net?"
Dave
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