This *IS* a serious event. It *IS* sponsored by the branch of NATO that furthers international science and technology cooperation between NATO members and Russia and former republics of the former USSR. I attended last years conference at the invitation of Steve goldstein (NSF) who was co-chair. last year we met just outside of Moscow. In my opinion SEAN should make an immediate exception for the week long duration of this significant conference and its hoped for benefit of the growth of the internet in Russia and other former USSR republics. ******************************************************************** Gordon Cook, Editor & Publisher Subscript.: Individ-ascii $85 The COOK Report on Internet Non Profit. $150 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 Small Corp & Gov't $200 (609) 882-2572 Corporate $350 Internet: cook@cookreport.com Corporate. Site Lic $650 http://www.netaxs.com/~cook <- Subscription Info & COOK Report Index ******************************************************************** On Sun, 24 Sep 1995, Kai wrote:

My network assignment 204.82.160.0/22 (Sprint-announced) has become invisible to all Digex-connected networks, while my old assignment (204.97.218/219) is still seen normally. Following the NANOG list, I must suspect this is due to the route prefix filtering Sean Doran announced, and which seems to have gone into effect. As Comsat (a Digex client) can now no longer reach BelCom's overseas subsidaries (BelCom is a Computel client, client of Sprint: Computel is technically incapable of handling or comprehending this issue, you will have to deal with me). I demand that this route prefix filtering is turned off immediately: The Almaty NATO networking conference is IN SESSION (trace to 206.82.161.1 if you can ), and I was absolutely positive about the consequences this will have on the relationship between BelCom and Arna-Sprint in Kazakhstan. If you want to avoid a press release at the conference detailing names and circumstances of this engineering terrorism, you should turn off the route prefix filter THIS MINUTE. There was absolutely no humanly sane reason to 'pull the plug' on a Sprint customer like this, and to sabotage an event that has cost us $50,000 plus 200 engineering hours to make happen. This is off to the lawyers.

--- Kai Schlichting Internet Project Manager, BelCom, Inc. 515 Madison Ave Suite 2100 NY,NY 10022 212-705-9500 (voice) 212-755-0864 (fax) kai@belcom.net Ask us about Internet service in the CIS! Bringing Internet, where there is none