I pulled this off of ba.internet, thought you might find this interesting.. Name of poster removed to changed to protect the less enlightend --- Hi folks, Many of you already know me. I've been around in ba.internet and ba.news for a long time, and I'm not one to spam. I've been looking at the problem of congestion for quite a while now, trying to come up with a reasonable plan - and I think I have. For the long answer, see [sorry, Im protecting the guy]. For the short answer - how about a place where the small ISP can come, locate a router, and peer with a bunch of other ISPs? You don't need PI space, you don't need BGP4, and you don't have a $3000 per month co-lo bill. We will peer using OSPF, which almost all routers support. This will keep the local traffic local, and allow the small ISP to actually get a reasonable price for bandwidth to other local sites.