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Re: MAE-Phoenix info request

  • From: bmanning
  • Date: Sat Apr 06 17:19:07 2002 
>     > It's not a MAE.  All MAE's are listed at http://www.mae.net/
> 
> ...which has never stopped some other early exchanges from calling
> themselves MAEs, just as there are exchanges that call themselves NAPs,
> other than the NII-defined four.  Not suggesting it's a good idea, just
> that it's been the reality for a loooong time.
> 
>                                 -Bill

	early days, MAE was not a service mark of Worldcom nee MFS.
	folks can and did use the term to refer to this nifty thing
	that we now call an Internet Exchange.  

	The MAE in Phoenix was originally constructed by Dave Siegel
	and it ran from 1996 through 1998/9.

--bill