[2971] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Worldly Thoughts - Regionalizing Peering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Siegel)
Thu May 23 22:55:17 1996
From: Dave Siegel <dsiegel@rtd.com>
To: chuckie@panix.com (Alec H. Peterson)
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 19:51:50 -0700 (MST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199605140013.UAA17746@panix4.panix.com> from "Alec H. Peterson" at May 13, 96 08:13:04 pm
> >Another drawback to this model is that if you peer with people at one
> >exchange and one exchange only you would only give them routes that are
> >within the local region, and not all of your routes. This may be a problem.
> >It may not.
>
> It would be. What happens if one of your connections to a peering
> point goes down? You can't fall back to go through another peering
> point because they are not sending you the routes there. The way to
Since these are designed to be regional exchanges, one would presume that
transit is still available elsewhere.
Even at the large carrier level, I should think that the priority NAPs,
as well as the private interconnects, would contain complete information
on the other networks to back up any failure to route at a regional exchange.
Dave
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