Sprintlink traditionally has approached the NAP on a customer basis to the greatest extent possible. We have tried quite hard to maintain both the appearance and fact of an arm's-length between NAP management and technical decisions and the two large public internets that Sprint runs. The NAP is a creature of the Government Systems Division, and there has always been a team of co-Principal Investigators who are not Sprint employees, who have done an excellent job of representing the Sprint NAP in public and in helping operate it and plan its future. Sprintlink, on the other hand, is a part of Sprint Business. The bulk of the engineering at the NAP has been done by my colleague in GSD, Steve Schnell, whom some of you will remember from IETFs and the like. Steve is (unfortunately, because he's VERY good) not directly involved with Sprintlink. The general policy at the NAP had been managed by its most recently departed P.I., Bob Collet, who had not been directly involved with Sprintlink for some months either. Naturally, we do talk, share opinions back and forth, support each other's efforts and products when practical, and so on, but I have observed that this talking and sharing opinions back and forth occurs between the NAP folks and other NAP customers too. In my opinion, provided that the relationship between Alternet's engineering and the team at MFS Datanet which manages the MAEs continues as it has, and the new merger continues to support both sets of customers at least as well as the individual companies used to, I see no issue on this particular front. Sean.