[12494] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Traffic Engineering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Thu Sep 18 10:29:50 1997
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us (Jay R. Ashworth)
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 05:00:33 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
In-Reply-To: <19970917143554.53021@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us> from "Jay R. Ashworth" at Sep 17, 97 02:35:54 pm
Reply-To: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
Jay R. Ashworth sez:
> This is happening already, and it pushes one of my buttons _really_
> hard.
>
> The geographic locality of reference of the current Internet is
> pathetic. When my telnet session from St Pete to Tampa, Florida, goes
> via MAE-East, or worse, MAE-_West_, there's something _seriously_
> wrong.
One major "Crazy Eddie" factor you're not acknowledging is:
lines do not cost a linear amount per mile. Sometimes 'longer'
costs way less, due to this magical artifact called a "Tariff"...
(And Jay, if you start claiming there IS logic & reason in the
tariff process, you will get a room next to John Hinkely..)
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