[43014] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verio Peering Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Pierantozzi)
Thu Sep 27 21:24:29 2001
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 21:23:49 -0400
From: Craig Pierantozzi <tozz@user1.bind.com>
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In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010927153306.02db4a28@127.0.0.1>; from patrick@ianai.net on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 03:46:19PM -0400
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* Thus spake Patrick W. Gilmore (patrick@ianai.net):
[snip]
>
> Oh, one other point - Verio accepts smaller announcements from their
> customers - and propagates them. I guess Verio agrees that other people
> can run networks with all the extra announcements, even if Verio themselves
> cannot.
The rationale stated in past threads is that Verio's customers pay for this
service. Non-customers are not paying Verio for anything therefore they do
not choose to accept the more specific announcements from other providers.
Other providers have not taken this stance as shown by the list of those
that accept more specifics from peers.
cheers
-cp
