Re: Interconnects at NANOG

On Jan 3, 3:43pm, Dave Siegel wrote:

When the TLA's are expanded into their actual meanings, Metropolitan Area Exchange, and Network Access Point, there does not appear to be a great deal of difference between the two, except that one is a term that MFS Datanet started, and the other is one that the government sited as the term for the exchanges they were helping to fund/promote.

I've also heard a rumor that at least part of the convention was due to the MAE being called Metropolitan Area Ethernet which was, again, I believe coined by Andrew Partan of UUNET. Perhaps term IXP, IntereXchange Point could be used. Too many acronyms has long been a trend in technology. :-) -jh-