[88516] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Middle Eastern Exchange Points
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Wed Feb 8 10:18:58 2006
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 16:16:38 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0602072303480.1984@sokol.elan.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, william(at)elan.net wrote:
> And when ISP A buys access from ISP B for purpose of getting to ISP C is
> that peering or transit?
I thought it was generally accepted that "peering" is the exhange of
routes that are not re-sent to other organisations.
"Transit" is when one entity sends the routes on to other organsiations,
often with money involved.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se