"Nipper, Arnold" <arnold@nipper.de> writes:
Sean Donelan schrieb:
exchange points. Some of the additional exchange points have grown very large, such as CIX, MAE-West, LINX, AMS-IX, even though they didn't have NSF's "stamp of approval."
Why should LINX, AMS-IX, DE-CIX or any other European IXP need NSF's "stamp of approval"?
At the time, the "center of the universe" was AS690, which was paid for by US taxpayer money and consequently had an AUP. The NAPs were envisioned as a transitional mechanism away from that arrangement. A lot of us at the time wondered aloud why NSF needed to provide a stamp of approval on US-based exchange points, as the FIXes, MAE East, and Milo's setup at NASA-Ames were already going concerns without any kind of endorsement from the NSF. Some companies (notably UUnet) thought this was gratuitous enough that they never showed up at any NAPs. ---Rob