-----Original Message----- From: Timothy Brown [mailto:tcb@ga.prestige.net] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 1:32 PM

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What 'threshold' has triggered this sudden event, with routes going

Which sucks, because the better choice for them is to ignore the political concerns and do the technically responsible thing, which is bring their content or resources, whatever they are, closer to points in the Internet where they are most commonly used. There's really very little to be gained by announcing their own space as opposed to having a collocation provider with good connectivity providing them blocks out of their space.

au contrare. There's LOTs to be gained.

They just come from a larger enterprise mentality where they work very hard to make sure all the resources are centralized and controlled by one or two people.

The key word is "control" and the right form of responsibility is "fiscal", not "technical".