----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matthew Petach" <mpet...@netflight.com>
> I'm sorry. This is a networking mailing list, not a > feel-good-about-yourself mailing list. From the perspective of the > internet routing table, if you don't have your own AS number, you are > completely indistinguishable from your upstream. Period. As far as BGP > is concerned, you don't exist. Only the upstream ISP exists. Those things are all true, Matt. But they are orthogonal to "are you an ISP" (for any definition of ISP). Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
