Below is another bit of postscript I have thrown together. It's a map of a backbone that Peter L. and I have been telling people is a good idea for ICMnet, especially in light of the possible disconnection of Asia-Pacific, European, Latin American, African, and Carribbean R&E networks from each other as a result of the NSFNET transition. In such a situation, ICMnet could potentially act as glue between the various R&E networks around the world. It is also an attempt to deal with the differing routing policies and acceptable use policies applied to ICM vs. SprintLink and allow for different approaches to scale. ICM and SprintLink would peer with each other in D.C., Pennsauken and Stockton. SprintLink would provide transit between ICM and the other two NAPs and various peering points; ICM would provide transit between SprintLink and the FIXes. This is not official at this time, and Vadim doesn't like it. :) (He has advanced a counterproposal which will have SprintLink and ICM merge and share the same routing policy and physical fabric.) The principal differences betwen ICMnet now and this drawing are the connectivity to (and the router at) the Sprint NAP in Pennsauken NJ and the ICM line between Stockton CA and D.C. Sean. - -- # This is a shell archive. Save it in a file, remove anything before # this line, and then unpack it by entering "sh file". 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