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oddly enough this looks exactly like the statments made by a few providers when PSI decided to de-peer. what goes around comes around. On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Mitchell Levinn wrote: > > C&W did indeed shutdown their peering connections to PSINet > this weekend. While there are many potential explanations > for their actions, I have no visibility into their decision > process. I am disappointed with their decision to disconnect. > PSINet continues to seek a resolution with C&W to restore normal > connectivity in order to avoid further negative impact to both > companies and the Internet. Their decision is hard to understand > based on the following: > > - C&W and PSINet upgraded circuits used for peering between > the two networks earlier this year. C&W's recent action > seems inconsistent with the strategy that led to these > upgrades. > - PSINet's recent addition of direct private peering with several > of C&W's transit customers relieved the peering connections > between the networks of a couple hundred Mbps of traffic > (improving connectivity overall and, undoubtedly, lowering costs > for those transit customers). This is significant only because > C&W claims PSINet no longer has sufficient traffic to justify > the connections according to their published standards. In > fact, PSINet's overall traffic continues to grow. > - Most of the PSINet traffic previously destined for sites > behind C&W has alternative paths through other providers. > While this sounds like a generally good thing, especially given > the actions C&W has taken, it does make it difficult for those > that require certain traffic levels to be maintained consistently > for peering. Specifically, C&W's customers (or C&W itself) could > alter "natural" traffic flow to favor (or not) various connections > to meet their published standards (or not). PSINet demonstrated > to C&W that if naturally less favorable announcements were > preferred, PSINet could make an almost arbitrarily large (or > small) amount of traffic flow between the peers. Even so, in > C&W's opinion, PSINet will not be able to comply with their > peering policy's traffic standards. It is gratifying to note > that even without C&W peering, substantially all of the > traffic previously flowing between PSINet and C&W continues to > be delivered. > - At this time PSINet has not disabled the C&W peering interfaces > nor decommissioned any facilities. If C&W chooses to, they can > re-enable interfaces on their side and bring back the connectivity > lost between their non-transit customers and PSINet. PSINet > remains open to discuss with them a new bilateral peering > agreement if they so choose. > > PSINet remains committed to servicing its customers and the Internet > with the best possible infrastructure and policies. PSINet still > maintains hundreds of peering connections with other ISPs throughout > the world. While posting about matters between PSINet and its > peering partners is not typical, the circumstances and questions > arising from C&W's decision required some clarification. Hopefully > this additional clarification helps everyone understand the current > situation. > > -Mitch Levinn > PSINet > /rf
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