On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:15:19PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> >     > It's not a MAE.  All MAE's are listed at http://www.mae.net/
> > 
> > ...which has never stopped some other early exchanges from calling
> > themselves MAEs, just as there are exchanges that call themselves NAPs,
> > other than the NII-defined four.  Not suggesting it's a good idea, just
> > that it's been the reality for a loooong time.
> 
>       early days, MAE was not a service mark of Worldcom nee MFS.
>       folks can and did use the term to refer to this nifty thing
>       that we now call an Internet Exchange.  
> 
>       The MAE in Phoenix was originally constructed by Dave Siegel
>       and it ran from 1996 through 1998/9.

Or companies like http://www.maedulles.net/ who aren't exchange points at 
all.

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