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At 10:25 AM 10/29/96 -0800, Kent W. England wrote: > But that >still begs the question of adequate defenses against default-pointing and >other bad effects and the business plan which still calls for all of this >to go away. One can point default at someone whether or not they are peering with the person. I am somewhat confused by the thought that people believe that they need to be peering with someone to have that person point default at them. I could (I don't, but I could), point default at /anyone/ on the same switch fabric as me, whether they are peering with me or not. Why do people continue to tie these 2 issues together? > >I now take my large ISP hat off and return to the other side of the table. >I find that many of these same problems affect me if I am a small or new >ISP joining up to a public exchange like the NAPs or MAEs. Now I get 10 >peering requests per week and I run down the list of issues and before I >know it, I'm figuratively back on the other side of the table wondering >how clueless the other party is. > >The public exchanges are useful for a variety of things and they are and >will remain important, but the pressure for private peering points is >considerable as I outlined. Take your high bandwidth traffic to/from your >true peers off to private interconnects and avoid the hassle of the public >bazaar for that part of the bandwidth. The traffic level justifies high >bandwidth pipes for private peerings. > >My suggestion to newcomers and small ISPs is to help advance your cause by >latching onto the route servers and RA contractors as a way to help >yourselves >and your backbone peers. You need a process which can demonstrate that you >are >addressing the issues I outlined above. If that process were to be accepted by >all, then perhaps it would be easier to convince the backbones not to slow >the >peering process, but fix it and maintain it, while continuing private >interconnects as warranted. > >Flame away, but try to stay on point. (Please don't respond and say that the >true figure is 50 peerings per week, even though it may be more accurate.) > >--Kent >Speaking as a PacBell NAP consultant. > > > > Justin Newton Network Architect Erol's Internet Services - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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