Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 12:03:48 -0700 (MST) From: Ehud Gavron <GAVRON@ACES.COM> Subject: Re: Interconnects at NANOG To: srh@merit.edu Cc: nanog@merit.edu, GAVRON@ACES.COM

Can we agree that there's no longer any difference between MAE, NAP, and Interconnect? [with the exception of ``the four priority NAPs'']

Nit: Tucson has the C before the S...

It is probably still appropriate to use the term "NAP" to refer to those interconnect points which are sponsored by the NSF under solicitation 93-52. The solicitation specifies the duties of a NAP Manager organization; read it for details. I believe that the NSF has three or four contracts (Cooperative Agreements to be more precise) in place with NAP Managers for the Sprint, MFS, Ameritech and PacBell NAPs. (I don't know whether Ameritech and PacBell are one or two Cooperative Agreements, although it is probably easy to look it up.) -tjs