[35005] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: History of private peering and exchanges?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Howard C. Berkowitz)
Fri Feb 23 10:28:18 2001
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From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@clark.net>
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> > At some point, there started to be a business case for large
>> providers to interconnect with bilateral private links as well as at
>> exchanges. When did such links first get used for commercial
>> traffic? In the beginning, were they short-haul connections between
>> cages in exchanges, or WAN links between major provider hubs? I'm
>> referring here only to interprovider links, not to transit customers.
Mark Borchers added,
>
>Well, if this is to be a comprehensive list, private interconnects
>predated the commercial Internet. At OARnet in Ohio, we set up
>peering with CICNet in a facility near the Ohio Supercomputer Center
>in order to avoid long round trips.
Clearly, there's a need to broaden my scope!
I do want differentiate between good solid technical examples, such
as yours for OARnet-CICNet, between examples where the suits had an
economic motivation. The latter, I would assume, came later.
While I recognize I won't be able to publish the details of many
NDA-covered commercial private peerings, it is my hope to identify
when this practice began. A side motivation for this particular
point is to identify when commercial NDA considerations might have
restricted the potential ability of routing registries to give
reasonably accurate representations of topology and policy.
Yeah, yeah...if everyone DID put all their policies in an RR. Yet
Another Issue.
