Re the NAPs and connectivity. Are there varying degrees of problems? What happens if Unipalm comes into MAE East and peers with everyone there? Including Sprintlink, MCInet, and ANS? Are we hearing that these three would refuse transit to Unipalm's traffic that would need to go to NAPs in order to get to the academic regionals? If such an arrangement would not guarantee Unipalm adequate connectivity, why not? Where would the failure points be and for what reasons? Are we hearing that to get carriage across Sprint, MCI and ANS that Unipalm would have to connect to all 3 NAPs??? Why? I thought connecting to all 3 was necessary only where a net wanted to be eligible for regional connectivity monies. UUNet and PSI will get traffic to all the regionals through MAE East or CIX?? Steve Goldstein's July 19th message to foreign nets (that I understand drew an outstanding flame from Rick Adams) cautioned foreign nets not to take their connectivity for granted. Well let me ask for example what a net like Demos that comes from Moscow into Alternet will have to do to be assured complete connectivity?? Which I guess is saying what will Alternet have to do to guarantee Demos connectivity? Gordon Cook, Editor Publisher: COOK Report on Internet -> NREN 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA NEW E-mail: cook@mcs.com Subscriptions: $500 corporate site license; $175 edu.,non-profit & small corp. $85 Individual