Text 25938, 59 rader
Skriven 2006-02-25 14:27:22 av Ross Cassell (1:123/456)
  Kommentar till text 25935 av Philip Lozier (1:267/169)
Ärende: Elist
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Hello Philip!

25 Feb 06 14:15, you wrote to Paul Sanders:

 PS>> The wording was 'carried', ie: 'for your echo to be carried on
 PS>> the Z1B it needs to be elisted'

 PL> On the "Z1B"... it was simply a list... didn't stop "distribution" of
 PL> an echo though. I know... I recieved echoes not "carried" on the Z1B
 PL> and others, but were still distributed.  So... in other words... an
 PL> echo never needed to be elisted to be "distributed".

Phil, I was one of the original founding members of the Z1B, that is to say I
was there and a member of it when it came to be, I had input on and voted on
its SLA. I was there when Jerry Gause, John Souvestre and Matt Bedynek became
its first T1 hubs, myself and several others started off as T2 hubs, I
eventually became T1. (T as in tier). To put your skepticism at ease, I was
there shovelling the dirt to break ground for that distribution systems birth
and inception.

What you say is only partially true.

If an echo was not in the elist - It did not qualify for backbone.z1b

At the birth of the z1b, they grandfathered in all echoes that were being
carried by the NAB, but going forward from that point read on.

If an echo was in the elist but the moderator didnt request the z1b to carry
it, it wasnt in the backbone.z1b.

If an echo was in the elist and the moderator requested the z1b to carry it,
this process was not over, upon request from the moderator, the z1b also
required that any combination of 2 tier 1 or tier 2 hubs also request the echo
following the moderator request before it was added to the backbone.z1b file.

After that once in the backbone.z1b file, to stay there, the echo had to stay
in the echolist and it also had to maintain minimum traffic levels.

Now the Z1B also carried unofficially certain echoes outside of its SLA, like
certain administrative echoes such as but not limited to ZCC_PUBLIC and the
FTSC related echoes.

Now to the truth of what you are saying.

Some individual hubs within the Z1B, I was one of them, would carry other
echoes, unofficially for our own downlinks and we would give our peer hubs the
option of carrying them. However fellow peers like John Souvestre would not
take them. It was not a rule of thumb. The only rule of thumb for the Z1B as a
whole was what was listed in BACKBONE.Z1B, unofficially carried echoes was not.


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