[88507] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Middle Eastern Exchange Points
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Wed Feb 8 00:06:09 2006
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 20:55:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@renesys.com>
Cc: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>,
"Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@gettcomm.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.0.20060207225600.01ab18c8@renesys.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Martin Hannigan wrote:
> Interconnecting in a government exchange is
> still peering.
Uh, not if it's buying transit.
> They are peering, even if it isn't by our
> definitions.
Uh, Marty... the difference between peering and transit is that they have
different definitions. If you say transit is peering, just not by our
definitions, then you're into 1984 territory.
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.
For me, however, peering is peering, and transit is transit, and my world
works better when I use words in accord with, rather than in contravention
to, their definitions.
-Bill
