[141230] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why don't ISPs peer with everyone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Helms)
Mon Jun 6 18:56:40 2011
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:55:24 -0400
From: Scott Helms <khelms@ispalliance.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20110606221937.B362C6F437@smtp.hushmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I'll answer with some questions:
Where should they peer?
Who should/will pay for the routers and aggregation ports? How about
the power, racks, and building space?
Who should/will pay for the network engineers to do the configuration
for the peering?
In short, peering isn't free for anyone. It _can_ be efficient in some
cases but in others its damn pita and you never really know which one a
given case will turn into. (its not always a problem of technical
competence)
On 6/6/2011 6:19 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.
>
>
>
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