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Re: ASN draft

Tony Bates <Tony.Bates@mci.net> Thu, 09 February 1995 07:46 UTC

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To: jgs@merit.edu
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Subject: Re: ASN draft
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 08 Feb 1995 12:26:48 EST. <9502081726.AA29961@yurt.merit.edu>
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From: Tony Bates <Tony.Bates@mci.net>
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Date: Thu, 09 Feb 1995 02:35:54 -0500
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Actually to be totally corrcect....

 jgs@merit.edu writes:
  * Paul sez:
  * [...]
  * >But seriously, I think you're in the Merrit trap.  This home AS stuff is
  * >a bunch of BS.  There's nothing really (right now) that says that I can't
  * [...]
  * >Why should a prefix be tied to an AS?  That's just the way Merrit organize
  * d
  * >things,  but I think that was one honking mistake, looking back on it now.
  * 
  * (I assume you mean "Merit."  As I recall, "Merrit" is a chain of gas
  * stations on the West Coast.)
  * 
  * It's a good thing you're not a historian, Paul.  Merit may deserve the
  * blame for many things, but inventing the Home AS notion is not one of
  * them.  Perhaps you were misspelling "RIPE" as "Merrit".
  *
Merit thought of the name "Home AS". The notion as you put it from
RIPE is in fact called the "origin" and means the AS that originates a
route.
 
  * --John
  *   who isn't in the Merrit trap

Are you sure ;-).

			-Tony.

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