[17195] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: different thinking on exchanging traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Wed May 27 11:11:01 1998
From: darcy@druid.net (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
To: damian@cyberdude.com (Damian O'Gorman)
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 07:13:48 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM (Sean Donelan), nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <356B1A2F.4CEB2927@cyberdude.com> from "Damian O'Gorman" at May 26, 1998 03:38:24 PM
Thus spake Damian O'Gorman
> The same type of project was attemted in Toronto. CANIX was essentially set
> upto cross connect traffic rather than having to traverse the entire US
> network to get
> to the other side of Toronto. The problem was, it became an exclusive
> bilateral peering
> arrangemt with 6 players. That was 1 1/2 years ago. Currently only 2 are
> peered. What in fact was the point. UUnet and Sprint were the big players up
> here and nobody appears to want to cooperate.
There is another project starting up now which is a little more egalitarian.
Check out http://www.torontointernetxchange.net/.
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