[17198] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Great Exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Wed May 27 15:57:58 1998
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 15:33:04 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199805271744.NAA21312@jekyll.piermont.com>; from "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> on Wed, May 27, 1998 at 01:44:08PM -0400
On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 01:44:08PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > 1) More needs to be done to leverage locality of traffic
>
> In the long run, why are we assuming there will be locality of
> traffic?
>
> It is true that the old PSTN has locality of traffic, but it doesn't
> have flat rate pricing, or the usage patterns that the Internet has. I
> argue that users are rarely more likely to be trying to download a web
> page from near to their homes than from far away. If there is
> locality, it is probably weak, and in the long run would only account
> for a fraction of the traffic.
The Web is Not The Net.
Please write that 100K times on your blackboard. (PS: no, you _can't_
use expect(1l) :-).
The fact, however, that you're correct in your implication that it's
difficult to prove how much traffic would be geographically local given
the routing technologies currently available is why I was going to slip
the peering in under the rug of selling the transit -- which everyone
seems to be telling me won't work.
On another point, it's worth noting that, _currently_, all the "good"
servers are somewhere else... but this won't be the case forever.
Cheers,
-- jra
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