On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
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From: "Matthew Petach" <mpetach@netflight.com>
To the core of the internet, if you do not have an AS number, you do not exist. If your business does not have an AS number *as far as the BGP speaking core of the internet is concerned, there is no representation for your entity, no matter what acronym you attach to it.*
There. Confusion over. You can call yourself an ISP until you're blue in the face, for all the good it does you; the incontrovertible point I'm making is that you don't exist as a recognizably separate entity from your upstream provider from the network perspective.
Ok. Correct.
From the viewpoint of the context of this thread... why was that pertinent again? :-)
I totally don't remember. I just hit a stubborn streak. Now we're so far off in the weeds, I can't even see where we started from. ^_^;; Matt
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