I'll answer with some questions: Where should they peer? Who should/will pay for the routers and aggregation ports? How about the power, racks, and building space? Who should/will pay for the network engineers to do the configuration for the peering? In short, peering isn't free for anyone. It _can_ be efficient in some cases but in others its damn pita and you never really know which one a given case will turn into. (its not always a problem of technical competence) On 6/6/2011 6:19 PM, rucasbrown@hushmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I wouldn't consider myself a network engineer, nor do I have any formal training, but why don't ISPs peer with every other ISP? It would only save EVERYONE money if they did this, no? Only issue I see is with possibly hijacked / malicious AS owners, but that's not very common to do without being caught.
All the whole "don't peer with this guy" only makes your customers have worse latencies and paths to other people, making the Internet less healthy.
Thanks, Rucas
PS: sorry if I sent this twice; client lagged a bit.
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