----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matthew Petach" <mpet...@netflight.com>
> To the core of the internet, if you do not have > an AS number, you do not exist. If your business > does not have an AS number *as far as the BGP > speaking core of the internet is concerned, there > is no representation for your entity, no matter > what acronym you attach to it.* > > There. Confusion over. You can call yourself an > ISP until you're blue in the face, for all the good > it does you; the incontrovertible point I'm making > is that you don't exist as a recognizably separate > entity from your upstream provider from the network > perspective. Ok. Correct. >From the viewpoint of the context of this thread... why was that pertinent again? :-) 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
