[2240] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Are We to Buy Speed for a Few or Connectivity for Many?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pushpendra Mohta)
Sun Feb 2 05:33:47 1992
From: Pushpendra Mohta <pushp@CERF.NET>
To: dennis@MrBill.CAnet.CA (Dennis Ferguson)
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 92 2:32:37 PST
Cc: schoff@psi.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <92Feb1.215510gmt.105513@MrBill.CAnet.CA>; from "Dennis Ferguson" at Feb 1, 92 9:54 pm
Dennis Ferguson writes:
>>
>>This leads to a topic which I personally find interesting. One advantage
>>of a single, large (well-working) "backbone", with the asymmetric relationship
>>to client networks which this implies, is that it simplifies routing
>>considerably for just about everyone. Making two or more points of
>>contact work well between networks which wish to maintain some sort of
>>symmetric relationship makes the problem of obtaining decent routing
>>between them quite hard.
>>
>>The two-backbone NSFnet proposal, and the CIX model as I understand it,
>>both seem to have the potential for producing some really intriguing routing
>>problems.
You can say that again! Many networks today are connected to both the
NSFnet and CIX backbones and we are trying to find good solutions now.
>>>From here it appears that the CIX has punted on the problem for the moment
>>by only bringing up one point of contact (I assume that packets wouldn't
>>travel between Reston, VA and Falls Church, VA via California if this
>>weren't the case). While this does simplify things considerably, it
>>can obviously lead to some very long distance paths between geographically
>>close sites
Long network paths between physically close sites has been the reality
since the pre CIX days.
In California, the breeding ground of Internet connectivity providers,
8 at last count , traffic from down the block in the Bay area may
actually come down to San Diego before resuming its north-ward journey.
>>
>>I was wondering, then, if there was a routing plan for a possible future
>>CIX with more players and more points of contact (or even a plan for
CIX techs are working on a routing plan for the current scenario
for nets connected to both the NSFnet and CIX backbones. When ready,
it will probably be available in a suitable forum.
--pushpendra
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