On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Gordon Cook wrote:
What are the positions of Ameritech, sprint, pac bell and MFS on two issues?
Who cares? It's a business decision.
First having someone at a NAP who is there as a customer of one of the
Second: allowing such a customer, or an NSP, to attach web services directly to the FDDI ring at the NAP.
First, there is a difference between a NAP and an exchange point. NAP's are quasi-government-sponsored exchange points or in other words, a NAP is a special sort of XP.
PAIX is doing this. As far as I know the other major interchange provider are not. I am wondering why.
Digital's new XP is doing this. http://www.ix.digital.com/ for more info. Other XP's do it too if it makes business sense. The market will figure out whether it makes sense or not. Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com