Sean, More than a few providers expressed concerns. The people present at that meeting deal with thses and other issues. I think that anything that could impact the operation of the net would be fair game for discussion. Who knows I could be wrong. At any point we are willing to work toward an imeadiate solution. As I said before, we had some of the best minds in the world present at that meeting. If we can't solve the problem shame on us. Joseph On Mon, 20 Mar 1995, Sean Donelan wrote:

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First off this is not about what Karl wants. All NSP's are involved in this matter. Karl does not have to prove that NET-99 is valid to the Nic. The Nic knows this. Their guidelines are in our opinion and the opinions of many outdated. What we were talking about is how to change this. Nothing more. Groups like NANOG are where these talks take place.

I sat through the last NANOG meeting this came up. While a few providers expressed concern about the current guidelines, they offered no hard evidence of problems at the meeting. Since the mantra of the NANOG is it is an operations group, not a policy group; in the absence of any hard evidence of an current operational problem the NANOG didn't seem to be the correct forum for changing policy guidelines.

-- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation