[4905] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering versus Transit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Oct 1 12:02:20 1996
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 08:44:58 -0700
From: owen@DeLong.SJ.CA.US (Owen DeLong)
To: mdz@netrail.net, woody@zocalo.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Matt Zimmerman <mdz@netrail.net> writes:
> > because you're using THEIR resources to do so, without
> > explicit permission from them.
>
> That's a repetition of the same position that's been stated over and
> over, without justification. If A sends to B directly in the absence
> of an advertised route, A is "stealing" resources from B. If B sends
> to A indirectly through A's transit provider, then B is "stealing"
> resources from A. What makes the former case worse in your mind than
> the latter, when it results in higher reliability, lower cost, and a
> sounder architecture?
>
The latter is not "stealing", it's sending packets to the advertised route.
The former is "stealing", it's sending packets to an unannounced route.
Owen
