Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

[mpetach at netflight.com (Matthew Petach)]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Matthew Petach" <mpetach at 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?  :-)
>

I totally don't remember.  I just
hit a stubborn streak.  Now we're
so far off in the weeds, I can't even
see where we started from.  ^_^;;

Matt


>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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