[11003] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: California NAP Designed as a CIX Killer??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hans-Werner Braun)
Thu Mar 17 22:35:04 1994
From: hwb@upeksa.sdsc.edu (Hans-Werner Braun)
To: cook@path.net (Gordon Cook)
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 14:58:07 PST
Cc: peter@goshawk.lanl.gov, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9403171446.aa25976@pandora.sf.ca.us>; from "Gordon Cook" at Mar 17, 94 2:46 pm
Gordon:
>But it would make no sense for an NSP to have one major place for peering
>and to connect to NAPs other than those where this place happened to be,
>UNLESS the NSP connected to the NAPs to peer with some other network
>which for some reason did not connect to the NSP's primary 'peering"
>place?????
Lets assume NASA and DOE wanted to retain the FIXes for DOE/NASA
traffic. Now, they may still decide to connect to NAPs to reach more
of their clientele, but may perhaps not want to exchange traffic via
a NAP to each other.
Hans-Werner
PS: I just made this up for illustration perposes, I do not know what
they really want to do relative to NAPs.
