Yes, thanks for making my point. des ---------- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu on behalf of Vadim Antonov Sent: Thursday, December 05, 1996 3:59 PM To: Danny Stroud Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: Exchanges that matter... Danny Stroud <dannystroud@msn.com> wrote:

So how do you reconcile the increasing number of private facilities? Although not exchange points in the truest sense ala MAEs and NAPs, they do carry an increasing percentage of cross-network traffic. The number of these types of facilities will grow. Maybe our difference here is that I count these and others do not. des

Er. Private exchanges are there only because public exchanges are running out of gas. They have the same problems with routing as public exchanges do. --vadim