[5914] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AGIS/DIGEX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Tue Oct 29 22:29:29 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: nathan@netrail.net (Nathan Stratton)
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 22:16:07 -0500 (EST)
Cc: rob@elite.exodus.net, dorian@cic.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961029205513.32531C-100000@netrail.net> from "Nathan Stratton" at Oct 29, 96 08:58:55 pm
> On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Robert Bowman wrote:
>
> > This is all very interesting information. It seems at-home recently did
> > the same thing with us, as they stopped all transit and were not on CIX,
> > basically forcing us to peer with them. Is this the route to get peering
> > with the big players that will now evolve? Forced peering due to
> > unreachability?
>
> Ya, we have the same problem, we will be at 7 NAPs by the end of the
> month, and DIGEX does not meet our peering requirements. If I don't peer
> with DIGEX then our customers yell at us when it is a DIGEX problem.
>
> What we could do is all cut peering say the first of the year and then
> DIGEX would need to buy transit or connect to more NAPs.
>
> Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Tracking the future today!
I'm quite sure that DIGEX doesn't care a hoot whether they meet netrail's
peering requirements. Even more so for ANS, MCI, Sprint, BBN, UUNET,
PSI, Netcom, and some others I can think of.
In fact, it doesn't appear that you're peering with them now, and until
a few weeks ago you were only at MAE-East, while they were also at MAE-West
and Pennsauken.
Avi
