[5851] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jian Li)
Mon Oct 28 13:13:31 1996
From: Jian Li <jli@hq.si.net>
To: jdd@vbc.net (Jim Dixon)
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 13:03:12 -0500 (EST)
Cc: jerry@fc.net, rs@bifrost.seastrom.com, azeem@dial.pipex.com, avg@quake.net,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.961028172346.2100G-100000@avon-gw.uk1.vbc.net> from "Jim Dixon" at Oct 28, 96 05:31:39 pm
>
> The point is that GSL's peering policies are radically different from
> those of SprintLink, whereas Cable & Wireless seems to have the same
> policies worldwide. Similarly, I know that GSL's prices for transit
> used to be much higher than SprintLink's and I suppose still are.
>
As what I know, GSL's peering policies have two parts, international and
US domestic. The US domestic part is exactly the copy of SprintLink.
International part is based on the idea of traffic localization.
-- jian
