[65498] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Worm Bandwidth [was Re: Santa Fe city government computers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Nov 28 18:25:33 2003
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 18:24:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3FC7C773.7090109@he.iki.fi>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Petri Helenius wrote:
> If you are an access provider, specially in the consumer space, you can
> do many things to help the "Greater Internet" by keeping your own back
> yard in good shape. In the transit business, you are expected to
> deliver the bits regardless of the content so there the only viable
> option is to drop packets where the source or destination addresses
> don=B4t make sense.
What is the difference between a transit provider and an access provider,
specially in the consumer space? Why is a transit provider expected to
deliver the bits, but the access provider isn't? Since the bulk of
Internet access is actually provided by wholesale providers (e.g.
AOL/Earthlink buy wholesale modem access from UUNET/Level3), who is
the access provider and who is the transit provider?
