[141261] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why don't ISPs peer with everyone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Tue Jun 7 00:35:22 2011
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 07:34:25 +0300 (IDT)
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
To: rucasbrown@hushmail.com
In-Reply-To: <20110606221937.B362C6F437@smtp.hushmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, 6 Jun 2011, rucasbrown@hushmail.com wrote:
Please define ISP.
-Hank
> 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.
>
>
