Transition question (ENSS status)
Sean, Several regionals have given their notice to NSF and Merit. To date it's only been possible for Merit to give ANS notice to terminate one ENSS. That was for ENSS 138 in Atlanta. Merit will soon, before the end of February, give notice to ANS to terminate all other ENSSs to meet the end of April deadline. Merit's termination notice will include ENSSs at the FIXs. Eric ------- Forwarded message Received: from home.merit.edu by um.cc.umich.edu via MTS-Net; Fri, 24 Feb 95 00:00:37 EST Received: from merit.edu (merit.edu [35.1.1.42]) by home.merit.edu (8.6.10/merit-2.0) with ESMTP id XAA08205; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 23:57:41 -0500 Received: from tiny.sprintlink.net (tiny.sprintlink.net [199.0.55.90]) by merit.edu (8.6.10/merit-2.0) with ESMTP id XAA23675 for <nanog@merit.edu>; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 23:48:21 -0500 Received: from tiny.sprintlink.net (localhost.sprintlink.net [127.0.0.1]) by tiny.sprintlink.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA25109 for <nanog@merit.edu>; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 23:48:20 -0500 Message-Id: <199502240448.XAA25109@tiny.sprintlink.net> From: Sean Doran <smd@sprint.net> Reply-To: smd@sprint.net To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Transition question (ENSS status) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 23:48:20 -0500 Sender: smd@sprint.net Out of curiosity, has any regional sent MERIT or has MERIT sent ANS a 60-day notice of termination yet? What happens if ANS doesn't get the 60-day termination notices 60 days in advance of the end of the cooperative agreement? Also, for the fednet crowd, once the cooperative agreement expires and ANS is no longer a federal network, and also has no IRC obligations, will they still be permitted to remain at the FIXes, or will that be considered less important given the plans to link the FIXes and the MAEs in various ways? WRT the FIXes, mostly I'm wondering about the fate of ENSS145, and pondering the fate of ICM AS 1800's external connectivity. Sean. (Just curious, and figuring someone here might know)
In message <43571759@um.cc.umich.edu>, Eric.M.Aupperle@um.cc.umich.edu writes: | Sean, | Several regionals have given their notice to NSF and Merit. To date | it's only been possible for Merit to give ANS notice to terminate | one ENSS. That was for ENSS 138 in Atlanta. Merit will soon, before | the end of February, give notice to ANS to terminate all other ENSSs | to meet the end of April deadline. Merit's termination notice will | include ENSSs at the FIXs. Eric Wow, *poof* bye bye NSFNET backbone service. I was wondering, in the interests of federal-agency <--> IRC (MCI), international (PIPEX) and domestic (Alternet, PSI et al.) commercial connectivity, if ANS might somehow be able to negotiate among the federal networks for keeping ENSS145 at FIX-EAST as a level-three backup between FIX-EAST and MAE-EAST+ just in case the level-2 bridging scheme doesn't work very well in practice. ANS is better suited to that than ICM is right now, and I think it would be pragmatic not to have to deal with the issue of east-coast FIX<-->MAE connectivity on an emergency basis. This is probably an FNC thing that NSF/MERIT combination is likely to be best suited to run with, I imagine. Sean. - -- Sean Doran <smd@icp.net> / <smd@sprint.net>
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