Folks; Of interest to the ops community. Of course, many of you already know about this new organization of ISPs. I would give you a better URL, but there does not yet seem to be a web site http://www.iops.org or anything at CNRI. See: http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/97/05/20/bbn_y0007_1.html for the press release. Header paragraphs below. --Kent RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 20, 1997-- Inter-ISP Group Will Work to Improve Operational Performance and Technical Integrity of the Internet Nine of the nation's major Internet service providers announced today the formation of IOPS.ORG, a group of Internet service providers (ISPs) dedicated to making the commercial Internet more robust and reliable. IOPS.ORG will focus primarily on resolving and preventing network integrity problems, addressing issues that require technical coordination and technical information-sharing across and among ISPs. These issues include joint problem resolution, technology assessment, and global Internet scaling and integrity. IOPS.ORG will provide a point-of-contact for these industry-wide technical issues. The founding members of IOPS.ORG are ANS Communications, AT&T, BBN Corporation, EarthLink Network, GTE, MCI, NETCOM, PSINet, and UUNET, and it is expected that additional national and international Internet operators will join. IOPS.ORG will work with other Internet organizations, with Internet equipment vendors, and with businesses that rely on the Internet. IOPS.ORG members individually will continue to support other Internet organizations such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG), and the Internet Society. ...