Dave Siegel writes:
Since these are designed to be regional exchanges, one would presume that transit is still available elsewhere.
Even at the large carrier level, I should think that the priority NAPs, as well as the private interconnects, would contain complete information on the other networks to back up any failure to route at a regional exchange.
Er, um, well yes, but ideally if you get peering from all the big boys, you wouldn't need to purchase transit from someone. I think the idea of only exchanging local routes at any given regional exchange is not a bad idea, but I don't see how it would really end up working properly in a fluctuating environment. Alec -- +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ |Alec Peterson - chuckie@panix.com | Panix Public Access Internet and UNIX| |Network Administrator | New York City, NY | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+