Re: customers and web servers and level one naps

[Paul A Vixie <vixie () wisdom home vix com>]

> > Second:  allowing such a customer, or an NSP, to attach web services
> > directly to the FDDI ring at the NAP.
> > [...]
> > PAIX is doing this.  As far as I know the other major interchange provider
> > are not.  I am wondering why.
>
> Digital's new XP is doing this. http://www.ix.digital.com/ for more info.
> Other XP's do it too if it makes business sense. The market will figure
> out whether it makes sense or not.

Digital's new XP is not doing this.  Quoting the above WWW page:

|Digital is not in the business of selling Internet Service.
|...
|Locating a corporate server at the Digital Internet Exchange insures the
|fastest access to global Internet routes. We're a switching center and a
|data center designed for collocation of business computers, a facility that
|is secure, powered, cooled, fire protected and earthquake resistant with
|7x24 access, and remote hands service.

Then, later on in http://www.ix.digital.com/guide.html, we see:

|Collocation Services 
|...
|All servers must be direct customers of a Service Provider located at the
|Digital Internet Exchange. 
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