[2745] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Tue Apr 30 15:41:17 1996
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 15:35:44 -0400
To: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@netrail.net>
From: John Curran <jcurran@bbnplanet.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
At 2:12 PM 4/30/96, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>...
>Setting aside the technological barriers to such an arrangement, an
>optimal configuration would be one in which all routing entities peer with
>one another at all available locations, so as to provide the shortest path
>between routing communities.
I believe that the optimal configuration would actually involve only
one routing entity and no peering at all. I'm pleased that instead
we've implemented a model which (while not optimal) allows for a
growing Internet service provider industry. Solutions which are
optimal under one constraint tend to degenerate in the real world.
Shortest-exit routing and equivalent distributed peering is used to
avoid settlements for transit costs. If there's a strong demand
for dissimiliar peering, then it's likely to appear with settlements.
/John
