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At 10:35 AM 1/3/2003 -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote: 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.> 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 love to see a list of the ways IXes commit suicide. Can you rattle off a few?It's one of the many, many ways in which exchange points commit suicide. -Bill
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