[85255] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Regulatory intervention (Redux: Who is a Tier 1?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Thu Oct 6 14:51:53 2005
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 14:51:06 -0400
From: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20051006175304.GU1013@burnout.tpb.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Niels Bakker wrote:
>
> * wsimpson@greendragon.com (William Allen Simpson) [Thu 06 Oct 2005,
> 19:10 CEST]:
>
>> Following up on my own post, according to
>> http://www.ams-ix.net/connected/
>
>
> Useful page, isn't it?
>
I wish that all IXs had one.
>> Cogent, Open
>> Level(3), Not public
>> We Dare B.V., Open
>>
>> So, what did your member organization do to resolve this partition.
>> Cut off Level(3)? Sue them?
>
>
> That particular member organisation has a policy of not interfering with
> its members' peering policies. It expects its members to send packets
> only to people who explicitly asked for it over the shared
> infrastructure (via announcements of prefixes via BGP), and to pay their
> bills on time.
>
Arguably a very good thing. IXs shouldn't be in the "enforcement"
business. That's for governments.
(As you will remember, I was refuting his generalization that "private"
organizations are somehow preferable to "public" organizations. It has
always been my preference to argue with specifics in hand.)
--
William Allen Simpson
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