[4816] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering versus Transit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Sun Sep 29 20:55:18 1996
To: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 19:51:11 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0v7VlC-0007zuC@rip.psg.com> from "Randy Bush" at Sep 29, 96 04:58:00 pm
From: alan@mindvision.com (Alan Hannan)
Reply-To: alan@mindvision.com (Alan Hannan)
Hello,
> > You mean that if I have data to go to Sprint, typically a Sprint customer
> > who has requested said data, that I'm not supposed to route it to Sprint
> > unless *I* have some agreement with Sprint?!?
>
> It scares me to see this question on this list.
Aiyee.
Let us imagine, if we will, a truck. This truck has a rather odd
reddish-orange circle-ish emblem, and the letters S-P-R-I-N-T on
it.
You notice inside a cellular phone.
By what logic would you use the cellular phone for a personal
call to a chap who happens to have Sprint as an LD provider?
And by what logic would you send packets to a node you aren't
"authorized" to?
Silly analogies often provoke interesting defenses.... :-)
* _Peering_ means that A and B agree to exchange routes and traffic
for a certain set of customers/dependants of A and B.
* _Transit_ means that A agrees to takes B's packets and get them to
their destination (regardless of where it is) and that A will
accept/advertise traffic/routes for B.
* _Stealing_ is when B uses A's resources without permission or
agreement.
At least, that's what I understand....
-alan
