[85188] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering vs SFI (was Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Irving)
Wed Oct 5 19:40:35 2005
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 18:38:23 -0500
From: Richard Irving <rirving@antient.org>
To: Sean Butler <sean@2sparrows.org>
Cc: "'vijay gill'" <vgill@vijaygill.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20051005214619.3CFB93E5D@east.2sparrows.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Sean Butler wrote:
>>> "There can only be *one* !" - WorldCom chant, Circa 1995.
>>>
>>>WorldCom didn't know what IP SFI was in 95. Perhaps you
>>>
>>>
>>mean UUNET/MFS?
>>
>>
>> Or, perhaps I mean Alternet, eh ?
>>
>> - A Rose by any other name....
>>
>>Or if you change "1995" above to "1997," which was when UUNET 1st announced
>>the end of "free of charge" interconnections, then WorldCom would be
>>correct, as they had just recently purchased UUNET.
>>
>>At least that's the date I have in the following paper I wrote a while back:
>>
>>http://www.2sparrows.org/Sean/rit/final%20thesis.pdf
>>
>>It's fairly outdated now but may be a good read for those that haven't been
>>around that long and seem to be a bit confused on peering vs. transit and
>>other such things. At least the 1st 1/2 of it before it ventures off into
>>telco realms.
>>
>>/Sean
>>
>>
I stand corrected, that was the moment.
"They say the memory is the first to go,
and I can't remember what is second...."
:-)
