[106433] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Arbitrary de-peering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Hennigan)
Mon Jul 28 16:23:00 2008
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:23:10 -0700
From: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0807281217250.7234@soloth.lewis.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, William Waites wrote:
>> Tier 1 has enough peering relationships with enough other Tier 1
>> networks that they can always buy temporary transit privileges over an
>> existing link.
Every peering agreement I've seen has language to the effect that an
entity can't both be a transit customer and a peer. Even if allowed,
the temporary transit privileges would need to be provisioned and turned
up which isn't going to happen instantaneously.
> Tier 1 means you don't buy transit, no?
"We are a Tier 1 provider" tends to mean "I am a salesperson".
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