Re: florida ix(en) facing south

["Daniel L. Golding" <dan () netrail net>]

Leo,

Route leaks aside, there is currently a Technical Working Group forming
for  discussion of technical topics relating to the new NAP. A web page
will be up after the first of the year, but the mailing list is
operational now. An operations list, and a general admin list will
follow. To subscribe to the TWG list, email majordomo () netrail net with the
following in the body of the message:

subscribe nota-tech

BTW, Randy  - There is not any voting for membership that I've seen
yet. While there are membership meetings, the cookies are optional :)

I believe the hope is to combine the business acumen of the operator,
Terramark, with the benefits of a member run organization, NOTA. If folks
don't like things about it, they should get involved and change them. I
have been extremely impressed by everyone involved with this initiative so
far - there are no agendas, and it's not a closed, 
"club" atmosphere. Everyone is given the opportunity to contribute.

I guess my hope at this point is that BellSouth will jump on the
bandwagon, and make their facility part of NOTA. I just hope everyone goes
into this with an open mind, and gives it a chance.

Thanks, and Happy Holidays!

- Daniel Golding

On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Leo Bicknell wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 09:59:12AM -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
> > > Keep in mind that all of those actions, including turning up an interim
> > > facility, were voted on by the membership. It's not like a MAE, where the
> > > operator can take action without the consent of the members.
> >
> > oh goodie!  it's a social club like the linx.  do the current members get
> > to vote on who can be new members too?  are there fun fun fun membership
> > meetings with cookies?
>
>       Hopefully they will set up an operational list where everyone can 
> send the new AS's and routes.  We want to make sure any new naps have as
> many route leaks as the current ones.
>
> -- 
> Leo Bicknell - bicknell () ufp org
> Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440
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