Re: ASN draft

bmanning@isi.edu Tue, 07 February 1995 17:44 UTC

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To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 09:26:24 -0800 (PST)
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> 
> > Organizations and ASes may once used to have been the same (that's
> > debatable), but they simply aren't now.  Insisting that there's a
> > one-to-one correlation between organizations and ASes is fantasy.
> 
> An example to substantiate Sean's point, but in a direction eh may not have
> anticipated.
> 
> This organization has seven POPs.  Almost every POP is multi-homed, but not
> to eachother.  We do not have a spine between, but rely on peers to transit
> for us, and pay them to do so.  One organization, multiple ASs.
 
Different administrative domains for different prefixes yes?

> >From some of these POP/ASs we have wires to overseas providers.  They are
> very separate organizations, but single-homed, hence in our ASs.
> 
> Venn will Bill understand?  :-)
> 

Bring the Hank Arron special & beat it into me.  I am so dense that 
I can't seem to understand this simple thing.

-- 
--bill