Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1?

["Steven J. Richardson" <sjr () merit edu>]

[ ANS has had both NSFNET and non-NSFNET customers on ENSSs.  There are
still lots of non-NSFNET customers which ANS has on ENSSs in addition to
the CNSSs. ]

  > Date:  Sat, 29 Apr 1995 21:20:25 CDT
  > From:  sob () academ com (Stan Barber)
  > To:    Tony Li <tli () cisco com>
  > CC:    avg () sprint net, karl () mcs com, nanog () merit edu, rps () isi edu, salo@msc
.edu

  > Okey. I am just looking for clarification. Vadim's statement seemed to eith
er
  > indicate that ANS was not a "large service provider" or that NSSes were no
  > longer part of ANS's backbone. 
  > 
  > I am certainly in no position to know how to classify "large service provid
er"
  > unless we look at the NSF NSP definition as a metric. If there is another 
  > objective definition, I'd be happy to hear about it. 
  > 
  > As for the NSSes no longer being in the ANS backbone, it is clear that ANS
  > is using some Cisco products, but it is also clear there are still some CNS
Ses
  > that Cisco didn't build. 
  > 
  > 
  > 
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