A thought-provoking issue to be sure, but it is already chronicled
in the Archives of NANOG.
> Also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To me, that looks more like an outage (now fixed) on a customer
> >network. The 'loop' between 500.Serial2-11.GW4.BWI1.ALTER.NET and
> >core62007-gw.customer.alter.ne
If you'll look at this pointer to one of ARIN's pages, it lists
the minimum allocation size for each CIDR block that IANA has
given ARIN to manage. From what I've seen, most providers accept
at least up to the prefix length that the RIR's are using, if not
longer.
http://www.arin.net/statistics
It's not a MAE. All MAE's are listed at http://www.mae.net/
There appears to have been a proposal last year for a meet-point
in Phoenix for networks participating in a telemedicine project.
Does not appear to be intended to exchange public Internet traffic.
> I see from the great speadsheet (
Anthony D Cennami wrote:
>
> You aren't maintaining anybodies distributed server farm. You're
> maintaining the infrastructure that your clients pay you to use, and
> they're allowing this application to function in the manner
> described in
> plain english within the license agreement.
T
> -Original Message-
>
> AS3561 (InternetMCI) was once the number 1 ISP, by almost every
> measure that existed. The marketplace has not been kind to C&W
> since they bought AS3561. Why isn't Adam Smith's Invisible Hand
> rewarding C&W? Is C&W number 5 or 6 these days?
I think all th
> This is a great book, BTW. All network engineers should read
> it.
Just happen to have it handy. Both of the earlier posters were
correct. The book cites both Bob Taylor's priority on R&E
networks and Baran's goal of a resilient communications system
that could survive a nuclear holocaust.
