[17056] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: a little thought on exchanging traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Horvitz)
Wed May 20 11:56:49 1998
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 11:36:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Horvitz <horvitz@shore.net>
To: "Pickett, David" <dpickett@northc.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <2135276B51D9D111AB3B00805FA9E1C93A2D@okemo.andr.ub.com>
> L3 Forwarding devices implement policy. The policies, in their most
> basic form, tell the forwarding agents where, when, and how to handle
> various classes of traffic. What happens when competitive entities
> need to interconnect their L3 devices in order to build a larger
> network? Does the current NAP model work well? Do peering
> agreements, as we understand them today, work and scale well?
>
What I am curious about here is the view from the big networks. A small
number of networks carry a very large percentage of the traffic. I'd like
to know what piece of their traffic actually crosses a public exchange,
rather than being delivered to a customer or another big network over a
private peering arrangement. The answer to this question will put some
level of relevence on this discussion. If those who carry 80% of the
domestic traffic exchange 80% of their off-network traffic privately then
NAP architecture and growth stratagem don't really make a difference.
Brian Horvitz
