It sounds like Verio (a) didn't know about CIX's next-hop policy at PAIX
and (b) is about to ask for it to be changed.cix? what's cix? some kind of sugared cereal?
Think it is a router that many months ago saw tons of traffic
pass between 2914 and 701 
Just observing as a recreational
shell customer of a 2914 subsidiary. Consequently (a) above may
not (should not?) hold.