North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Worldly Thoughts - Regionalizing Peering
Dave Siegel writes: > >Since these are designed to be regional exchanges, one would presume that >transit is still available elsewhere. > >Even at the large carrier level, I should think that the priority NAPs, >as well as the private interconnects, would contain complete information >on the other networks to back up any failure to route at a regional exchange. Er, um, well yes, but ideally if you get peering from all the big boys, you wouldn't need to purchase transit from someone. I think the idea of only exchanging local routes at any given regional exchange is not a bad idea, but I don't see how it would really end up working properly in a fluctuating environment. Alec -- +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ |Alec Peterson - [email protected] | Panix Public Access Internet and UNIX| |Network Administrator | New York City, NY | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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