I'd happily be part of a panel discussion. I doubt you will get very many takers though since it is the perfect opportunity for overzealous and frustrated engineers to take pot shots at a few well intentioned people :( Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Bouchard" <web@typo.org> To: "Mark Tripod" <mark@exodus.net> Cc: <dhudes@hudes.org>; <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 3:28 PM Subject: Re: MAE-EAST Moving? from Tysons corner to reston VA. | | This kind of topic has the makings of a good presentation for the WDC | nanog... | | Any takers? | | > No public exchange architecture can hope to cope with the massive | > amounts of traffic being exchanged between the larger backbone networks. | > Public exchanges are good entry points for new networks while they build | > their customer base and traffic levels. At some point private | > interconnects must take over in order for a company to continue to | > provide the level of connectivty and service that their customers | > expect. | > | > The next operational issue that I forsee is the effective scaling of | > private interconnect bandwidth (especially with the lack of real port | > density on a certain router vendor's product). | > | > Mark