[4829] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering versus Transit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorian R. Kim)
Mon Sep 30 01:52:18 1996
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:48:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@cic.net>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net>
cc: barney@databus.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199609300528.WAA01383@quest.quake.net>
On Sun, 29 Sep 1996, Vadim Antonov wrote:
> Finally, most IXP operators do not seem to be diligent in explaining
> to new IXP members to be that being at IXP is by no means a guarantee
> that anybody would want to peer.
That would be putting it rather mildly. In fact some of the IXP sales droids
perpetuate the myth that connecting a _single_ IXP = connectivity to Internet
and mislead some poor clueless folks into buying IXP's services.
-dorian
