[15901] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: consistency and cix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri Mar 27 18:09:47 1998
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 15:00:41 -0800 (PST)
To: "Justin W. Newton" <justin@gid.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> I suppose the issue comes down to whether one considers the CIX
> relationship to be one of transit provider or if it is considered an
> exchange point.
This is is the crux of the question I meant to be posing.
> Again, this is a political issue, and should probably be worked out between
> the two providers involved (hopefully through operational people and not
> lawyers though ;).
It is also a technical issue, as there are technical reasons why consistent
routing announcements are usually specified, whether the CIX is an exchange
or a for-fee transit provider is partially a technical judgement, ...
The two providers did, for the moment, work it out at the engineering level.
But we agreed the issue was interesting and the answer not obvious.
randy
