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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: MAE-Phoenix info request
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:15:19PM +0000, [email protected] wrote: > > > > 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. > > 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. Or companies like http://www.maedulles.net/ who aren't exchange points at all. -- Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)
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