Re: different thinking on exchanging traffic

[Bob Aiken <aiken () er doe gov>]

Tim

Actually - the idea of the NAPs (as defined in 1992) was an evolutionary
idea from the FIXs. MAE-East was the 1st prototype NAP.  But even during
the discussion of NAPS in 1991 (NEXs then, From  P Ford and HWB) and 1992 -
I remember discussions at the same time for layer 2 peering points by Tony
Hain, Geoff Huston and others with regards to the east and west fixes.
Yes, this idea has been around for a very long time.

bob




At 10:41 PM 5/26/98 -0500, you wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 22:02:47 -0500 (CDT)
> > From: Tim Salo <salo () networkcs com>
> > To: nanog () merit edu
> > Subject: Re: different thinking on exchanging traffic
> >      [...]
> > I believe that all four of the winning NSFNET NAP submissions proposed
> > nationwide "NAPs".  I believe that the reason they didn't happen is that
> > the NSF asked for and assumed it would get four geographically-focused
> > solutions.  I suspect that the notion of awarding four NAPs, all of which
> > covered all of the country, provided the NSF a certain amount of heartburn.
> > I believe that the nationwide NAP concept died, (or was killed), at the
> > time for administrative, not technical, reasons.  But, this is all
> > speculation on my part...
> >      [...]
>
> A presumably well informed observer sent me private e-mail that questioned
> my account.
>
> I read only one of the winning NAP proposals, the one I worked on.  My
> speculation that all of the winning proposals talked about nationwide
> NAPs was based on conversations after the fact, including with authors
> of competing proposals.  So, I believe that all of those who submitted
> winning NAP proposals were thinking about nationwide NAPs, but some may
> not have, based on the e-mail I received, included those thoughts in 
> their proposals.
>
> At any rate, my thesis is that the concept of a nationwide layer-two
> solution has been around for several years, at least since the time that
> the NAP proposals were written.  I might add, however, that we are
> collectively still learning about how best to make use of these very
> large layer-two services.
>
> -tjs

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