I agree, HE's peering policy makes them an attractive transit provider. However, money and strategy still come into play here. For example, ISP Z will think "I need some peering and transit. But if I get HE transit then some people may not peer with me at X-exchange because they will already see my routes via their HE peering" So then they get some transit from a network who is useless with their settlement free peering, then get the peers on the X-exchange and only when they are happily peered will they go to HE. -- Leigh Porter ________________________________________ From: Owen DeLong [owen@delong.com] Sent: 07 June 2011 06:43 To: Alex Ryu Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Why don't ISPs peer with everyone? FWIW, Hurricane Electric has an aggressively open peering policy and we will peer with anyone who is willing to peer at any exchange where we are connected. We believe as stated by Rucas that this only serves to enhance the internet experience for our customers as well as our peers. So far, it seems to be working pretty well for us. I encourage others to follow our lead in this regard as it truly does make a more functional internet. Owen On Jun 6, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Alex Ryu wrote:
Nope.
It is because who pay the money, and somebody wants to earn the money because they have more control. So it is because of "money".
Welcome to the world of capitalism.
Alex
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:19 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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