Re: proposed government regulation of .za namespace

2002-05-25 Thread Andy Rabagliati
Yes it is .. And I am aware of the great deal of assistance you provided for the initial UUCP links here. http://www.nsrc.org/about.html However, there is a larger arrogance he is battling - a poorly informed committee writing bad legislation that presumes they can do a better job of

proposed government regulation of .za namespace

2002-05-24 Thread Andy Rabagliati
http://www.politechbot.com/p-03548.html http://www.namespace.org.za/ Folks, A choice quote (not mine) from the URLs above :- I write in my capacity as the person who brought the Internet to South Africa, who got permission for the country to use the ZA namespace in

Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre

2002-04-18 Thread Andy Rabagliati
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Paul Vixie wrote: While acknowledging that a data center may make any rules it likes, I am asking nanog how common this practice is. data center is too amorphous a term to be used here. someone like exodus or qwest or att or uunet or abovenet would be very

Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre

2002-04-17 Thread Andy Rabagliati
Folks, Wishing to set up an alternative peering point in our fair city, we have run into a problem with the data center administration. The data center prohibits direct cabling between clients cabinets, even if the clients agree. Our peering point is not in the data center, but is

Re: Links between cabinets at commercial datacentre

2002-04-17 Thread Andy Rabagliati
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Bill Woodcock wrote: Or are they simply not allowed to purchase unlit service at all? That is, are tenants in the data center only allowed to purchase circuits from the telco, as opposed to crossconnects? This is not the Telco - this is a commercial, large, datacenter.