On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 01:44:08PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
1) More needs to be done to leverage locality of traffic
In the long run, why are we assuming there will be locality of traffic?
It is true that the old PSTN has locality of traffic, but it doesn't have flat rate pricing, or the usage patterns that the Internet has. I argue that users are rarely more likely to be trying to download a web page from near to their homes than from far away. If there is locality, it is probably weak, and in the long run would only account for a fraction of the traffic.
The Web is Not The Net. Please write that 100K times on your blackboard. (PS: no, you _can't_ use expect(1l) :-). The fact, however, that you're correct in your implication that it's difficult to prove how much traffic would be geographically local given the routing technologies currently available is why I was going to slip the peering in under the rug of selling the transit -- which everyone seems to be telling me won't work. On another point, it's worth noting that, _currently_, all the "good" servers are somewhere else... but this won't be the case forever. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com