In reply to your message of Mon, 19 Feb 1996 10:51:33 MST: Dave (doleary@cisco.com) sez:
If you send me $2500 and proof that you know what you are doing, and you have at least 5 years experience as an ISP, then I'll send you a nice certificate that says you are a certified ISP.
What's wrong with the current method?: 1) Purchase 1 or more routers (your choice of mfgr., model, config) 2) Establish peering at one or more NAPs/MAEs with more than 10 peers including at least two backbone providers 3) If at the end of six months you a) still have the same set of initial peers and b) have received one or more requests for peering which you have accepted 4) Then you are a CIE. :-) ;-) ;-) ;-) Cheers, Paul Paul "Corwin" Frommeyer Work Internet Engineer, CCIE Play ISP Systems Engineer (non-certified ;-) Network Sorcerer At Large Cisco Systems, Inc. Paul's Fone Company pfrommey@cisco.com corwin@palas.com *** Speaking solely for myself unless otherwise noted ***