Anything the Telco's do is not good for the smaller ISP. Nothing any of the RBOC's have done have been good for the small ISP. In fact, most of them are trying to stomp out the small ISP. Curits On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Leo Bicknell wrote:
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 07:50:04PM -0700, Peering Resistance wrote:
1) What are the selected sites?
Doesn't matter.
2) How do the rest of us play?
You don't, unless they invite you.
3) Why wasn't this process more open?
It doesn't need to be.
If it is collusion for a few ISP's to get together in one location and peer then well, anyone at a PAIX, a MAE, a Telehouse, or any number of other locations is guilty of colluding with other people at the same location. There is a long tradition of ISP's meeting somewhere in the middle, it's just often been hidden in telco circuits (each side buys a half circuit to some telco meeting point in the middle). Now they are putting routers in the middle meeting point, what changed, nothing.
If anything this is good for the small ISP, because before you had to be a telco and be able to deliver half circuits to a telco meeting point to get good peering. Now there is some hope that requirement would be minimized in the future.
Next thing you know the fact that Ford and GM both make cars that run on Unleaded Gas and force you to buy from these central distrubution points run by Exxon/Mobil will be because they are colluding against the people making {natural gas,electric,fuel cell} cars.
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