[46368] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Exodus/C&W Depeering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Tue Mar 26 13:24:42 2002
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 18:20:02 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>,
Chris Flores <cflores@adelphiacom.net>,
Chris Parker <cparker@starnetusa.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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> On the other hand, this could help balance traffic ratios, and make more
> people qualify for peering with CW. Well probably not, considering their
> requirements include winners like this:
>
> A. The applicant shall consistently announce at least 5000 routes to
> AS3561 (way to encourage aggregation guys, no really, good job)
Hmm based on my current peers this would exclude the likes of Telstra,
Level3, HKT...
Bye bye Asia Pacific!
> With luck it will throw their peering ratios out of balance and get THEM
> depeered by someone. Oh well, I guess there is a reason the entire
> industry calls them Clueless & Witless. :)
On another angle, if enough people refuse to take C&W routes from transit
preferring only peering.... nar, thats a conspiracy! Good plan tho.
Steve
