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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Cogent/Level 3 depeering
> I would think in NANOG that one would know the simple fact that 'The Complete > Internet' is complete and utter fiction, and does not exist. What does exist > is a complex, dynamic, even stochastic set of relationships between > autonomous networks, who can pick and choose their relationships at whim. Customers don't want to pay for a "stochastic set of relationships", they will pay for the "Internet" however. It's like paying for a telephone that could only call a subset of the world's telephone users. And the solution (assuming you wanted global reachability) was to buy multiple telephone services from different providers, but even then the reachability that those providers offered would change over time. Would you be happy to rely on telephone for critical business (or other) functions? Call me crazy if you'd like, but I tend to think that peering on the Internet is too important... -Benson --- Benson Schliesser (email) mailto:[email protected] I barely understand my own thoughts, much worse those of my betters. Thus, the opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of my employer. Ponder them at your own risk.
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