[2886] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Worldly Thoughts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Kaufman)
Sat May 11 00:01:16 1996
From: matthew@scruz.net (Matthew Kaufman)
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 20:57:41 -0700
In-Reply-To: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
"Re: Worldly Thoughts" (May 10, 19:49)
To: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Cc: matthew@nic.scruz.net
Original message <9605110249.AA04557@wisdom.home.vix.com>
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Date: May 10, 19:49
Subject: Re: Worldly Thoughts
>
> Quite a few CIX members operate this way. The interesting question in my
> mind is whether the "big guys" (defaultless nets, for the purposes of this
> discussion) think that this represents unfair competition or not.
>-- End of excerpt from Paul A Vixie
This is a _very_ interesting question in light of what I just posted...
the CIX has the (odd, these days) feature that peering is mandatory for all,
and so large providers don't get to choose whether or not they want to
haul traffic across the country for these people.
-matthew kaufman
matthew@scruz.net
ps. We'd already be at CIX if certain providers had more than a T-1's worth of
bandwidth available out of there, specifically to take advantage of the
"mandatory peering" situation. Heavily-loaded small pipes to interesting
places aren't useful, though.
