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Certainly - I'd be happy to. - Dan > From: Bill Woodcock <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 00:27:24 -0700 (PDT) > To: Daniel Golding <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Transit and Paid Peering Exchanges > >> In general, enterprises are not willing to peer the way that ISPs are - that >> is, show up, and try to get some peering in a speculative fashion. Most are >> more comfortable showing up at a site with the expectation to pay, and a >> good idea of exactly who they can pay to get the services they need >> (basically, transit, not peering). They also tend to want centralized >> accounting, and sometimes a route server and a high degree of technical >> assistance are helpful. The average IXP does not even come close to meeting >> these requirements, sadly. > > There's been talk about running a subscription-based peering brokerage > service on the west coast, primarily aimed at Asian carriers and networks, > in exactly the fashion you're describing, and that talk has gone on for > quite a few years, ever since the first few Japanese carriers showed up at > the PAIX and had trouble getting peering because of communication (people > not technical) issues. The Asia Pacific Internet Consortium nearly got > it done, but attempts so far seem to have kind of petered out. I'd be > interested in seeing what you find out, as would a lot of other people, > I'm sure. Can you propose it as a talk to Susan Harris, for a future > NANOG meeting, if your results are going to be public? > > -Bill > > >
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