At 10:35 AM 1/3/2003 -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote:
> clearly, interconnecting their exchange points to create a richly- > connected Internet 'core' is a natural progression if their > customers don't complain too loudly. > not that it's a bad long-term plan...
Actually, it is. It's failed in every prior instance.
I'd like to understand your viewpoint Bill. The LINX consists of a handful of distributed and interconnected switches such that customers are able to choose which site they want for colo. Likewise for the AMS-IX and a handful of other dominant European exchanges. By most accounts these are successful IXes, with a large and growing population of ISPs benefiting from the large and growing population. So I don't see the failure cases.
It's one of the many, many ways in which exchange points commit suicide.
I'd love to see a list of the ways IXes commit suicide. Can you rattle off a few?
-Bill