[51025] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dave Farber comments on Re: Major Labels v. Backbones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Mon Aug 19 12:56:29 2002
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 12:55:55 -0400
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
A question :
Doesn't Internap use BGP as part of its load balancing ? Don't they
sell / market this service ? Isn't each Internap node connected to > 4
providers ?
SO, wouldn't canceling China Telecom BGP through AT&T CW and UUnet do
nothing except cause some BGP advertisement changes at Internap ?
Marshall
Sean Donelan wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
>
>>Ok here's a question, why are they sueing AT&T, CW, and UU? I see
>>Listen4ever behind 4134 (China Telecom), who I only see buying transit
>>through InterNAP. Wouldn't it be simpler for them to sue InterNAP? I guess
>>it would sure be nice precedent, if they could make some big tier 1
>>providers do their bidding to filter whoever they want whenever they want.
>>
>
> The problem with BGP is you only see the "best" path more than one hop
> away. The network in question is reachable through transit providers other
> than InterNAP, such as Concert.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/17/business/media/17MUSI.html
>
> The New York Times says the companies named in the suit are AT&T
> Broadband (not AT&T's backbone?), Cable & Wireless, Sprint Corporation
> and UUNet technologies.
>
> "David Farber, a University of Pennsylvania computer scientist and an
> early architect of the Internet, filed an affidavit in the case, saying
> it would be relatively easy for the Internet companies to block the
> Internet address of the Web site without disrupting other traffic.
>
> "It's not a big hassle," Mr. Farber said. "There's no way to stop
> everybody, but a substantial number of people will not be able to get
> access."
>
>
>
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Marshall Eubanks
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