customers and web servers and level one naps

Thu Sep 5 19:35:55 UTC 1996

On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Gordon Cook wrote:

> What are the positions of Ameritech, sprint, pac bell and MFS on two
> issues?

Who cares? It's a business decision.

> First having someone at a NAP who is there as a customer of one of the

> Second:  allowing such a customer, or an NSP, to attach web services
> directly to the FDDI ring at the NAP.

First, there is a difference between a NAP and an exchange point. NAP's
are quasi-government-sponsored exchange points or in other words, a NAP is
a special sort of XP.

> PAIX is doing this.  As far as I know the other major interchange provider
> are not.  I am wondering why.

Digital's new XP is doing this. http://www.ix.digital.com/ for more info.
Other XP's do it too if it makes business sense. The market will figure
out whether it makes sense or not.

Michael Dillon                   -               ISP & Internet Consulting
Memra Software Inc.              -                  Fax: +1-604-546-3049
http://www.memra.com             -               E-mail: michael at memra.com