[141228] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why don't ISPs peer with everyone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Mon Jun 6 18:47:00 2011
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 22:39:41 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Alex Ryu <r.hyunseog@ieee.org>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikQo8NeeskpNuxKVa60uH3VTXLRgw@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
its not always about money. sometimes its reputation.
/bill
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 05:24:46PM -0500, Alex Ryu wrote:
> Nope.
>
> It is because who pay the money, and somebody wants to earn the money
> because they have more control.
> So it is because of "money".
>
> Welcome to the world of capitalism.
>
> Alex
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:19 PM, <rucasbrown@hushmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I wouldn't consider myself a network engineer, nor do I have any
> > formal training, but why don't ISPs peer with every other ISP? It
> > would only save EVERYONE money if they did this, no? Only issue I
> > see is with possibly hijacked / malicious AS owners, but that's not
> > very common to do without being caught.
> >
> > All the whole "don't peer with this guy" only makes your customers
> > have worse latencies and paths to other people, making the Internet
> > less healthy.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rucas
> >
> > PS: sorry if I sent this twice; client lagged a bit.
> >
> >
> >
