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Re: US-Asia Peering

  • From: William B. Norton
  • Date: Thu Jan 09 20:04:53 2003

At 10:35 AM 1/3/2003 -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote:

    >   clearly, interconnecting their exchange points to create a richly-
    >   connected Internet 'core' is a natural progression if their
    >   customers don't complain too loudly.
    >   not that it's a bad long-term plan...

Actually, it is.  It's failed in every prior instance.
I'd like to understand your viewpoint Bill. The LINX consists of a handful of distributed and interconnected switches such that customers are able to choose which site they want for colo. Likewise for the AMS-IX and a handful of other dominant European exchanges. By most accounts these are successful IXes, with a large and growing population of ISPs benefiting from the large and growing population. So I don't see the failure cases.

It's one of the many, many ways in which exchange points commit suicide.
I'd love to see a list of the ways IXes commit suicide. Can you rattle off a few?


                                -Bill