[46155] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Exchange Questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Tue Mar 19 04:53:29 2002
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:52:57 +0100
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@gitoyen.net>
To: "Streiner, Justin" <streiner@stargate.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20020319095257.GA24522@staff.netaktiv.com>
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On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:53:04PM -0500,
Streiner, Justin <streiner@stargate.net> wrote
a message of 72 lines which said:
> Most providers lack the levels of traffic or the geographic footprint to
> peer with the big guys (UUNET, Sprint, AT&T, CW, Genuity, etc), who
> typically build private interconnections with each other in multiple
> geographically diverse areas.
A small fix: unlike the other you mention, Genuity accepts peerings
with small providers. You have to do a lot of paper work, you have to
parse legalese, but it works.
