The issue seems to be better adressed as follows: Should "Tier 1" providers insist on private peering rather than public? It's a complicated issue, as there is zero fabric loss across a customer/private interconnect circuit. The ability to deliver such traffic provides a better service with only one place to put the blame, on a full circuit, rather than a congested exchange point, where you can blame the exchange point operator, and both providers involved for overcomitting their network capacity into the exchange point. It provides a much more managable connection model as to provide the best quality of service because of the state of the exchange fabrics. The question that looms then is should they discount their connection if it will be peering-only rather than normal transit? That is a bit more complicated issue and needs to be adressed between you and the provider(s) in question for your invididual case. All BBN/GTE, and i'm sure every other network provider out there are concerned about is the ability to exchange traffic with the least amount of loss. If none of their customers complain, you're less likeley to get anything. Host the next hot web site on the internet, the yahoo,infoseek, espn.com,cnn.com's. those will get you more notice. If you're not going to dump more than 10Mbps of traffic shared across all the points, I would just buy a connection. You're obviously sending this traffic somewhere now. - Jared On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 09:39:46AM -0400, Adam Rothschild wrote:
If anyone would like to communicate privately about the BBN Peering issues, please drop me an email, or call.
I would like to communicate openly and publicly about this.
What I would like more than anything right now is some official word from high-up's at BBN regarding what this policy entails exactly, and what their rationale is behind it.
That is, a public explanation other than the all-too-obvious "We're greedy. Welcome to the business world. We're not going to change our minds, so shut the fuck up and buy some transit, you dumb suckers."
Though I must admit that what I've heard may be biased, as I've heard from the opressees moreso than the opressors, this sounds like an issue driven by sheer stupidity and capitalism on BBN's behalf. Certainly does not seem to be in their best interest, or the best interest of the Internet as a whole. Of course, I could be mistaken, which is why I'd like some word from BBN.
Rather than limit this issue to within the confines of private communication, I would like to see it carried out as a very vocal and lively public one. That way, the general public will be able to make an educated decision regarding whether or not to purchase transit from BBN/GTE, in light of this.
Regards, Adam
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