On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Matthew Petach" <mpet...@netflight.com> > > > To the core of the internet, if you do not have > > an AS number, you do not exist. If your business > > does not have an AS number *as far as the BGP > > speaking core of the internet is concerned, there > > is no representation for your entity, no matter > > what acronym you attach to it.* > > > > There. Confusion over. You can call yourself an > > ISP until you're blue in the face, for all the good > > it does you; the incontrovertible point I'm making > > is that you don't exist as a recognizably separate > > entity from your upstream provider from the network > > perspective. > > Ok. Correct. > > From the viewpoint of the context of this thread... why was that > pertinent again? :-) > I totally don't remember. I just hit a stubborn streak. Now we're so far off in the weeds, I can't even see where we started from. ^_^;; Matt > > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth Baylink > j...@baylink.com > Designer The Things I Think RFC > 2100 > Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land > Rover DII > St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 > 1274 > >