[28282] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering Table Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (I Am Not An Isp)
Mon Apr 24 10:03:32 2000
Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000424064000.00beccb0@mail.ianai.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 06:47:19 -0700
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: I Am Not An Isp <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10004211734100.26736-100000@uplift.swm.pp.se
>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 05:54 PM 4/21/00 +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>One can also look upon it that the customer of Network A (the web site)
>should pay Network A for the costs involved and the customer of Network B
>(the dialup user) should pay Network B for their costs. A transfer of data
>is never initiated without two parties, one offering the data and the
>other requesting it. You never put data online unless you want people to
>look at it. Yes, I can see that if a network is very large it would not
>want to pay money for a private interchange, but if you are already at a
>shared medium you should at least offer restricted routing (for instance,
>you offer routes for your Washington DC customers to people at MAE-EAST).
Why do you assume most networks even have the ability to offer you "routes
for [their] Washington DC customers" at MAE-East? Offering localized
routes is not necessarily trivial. It has also been actively discouraged
as "dangerous" by some members of this list.
I am not at all saying that this is not possible, or even that it is not a
good idea. Just that no network "should" do anything it does not want to do.
Of course, one could argue that networks which make this extra effort may
have better traffic flows and happier customers, which may make them more
profitable or bigger companies or whatever. Whether that is actually the
case is left as an exercise for the reader. :)
>Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
TTFN,
patrick
--
I Am Not An Isp - www.ianai.net
ISPF, The Forum for ISPs by ISPs, <http://www.ispf.com>
"Think of it as evolution in action." - Niven & Pournelle
(Enable? We dunt need no stinkin' enable!!)
