On Fri, 2 May 1997, Wayne Bouchard wrote:
Well, this goes into "cutting off peers means your customers can't access mine." There's two problems with this: First, the key point is YOU can't access THEIRS without buying transit. Most ISPs aren't gonna permit this loss of connectivity and will buy transit.. it just won't
The problem is that if you buy transit you may be in violation of other peering agreements that say your routes can not be viewed from any other AS. Even if you were able to keep people like BBN and MCI to peer after you had transit setup, who are you going to get it from? If you pick Sprint, MCI, ANS, BBN, etc you will then not be able to peer with them. This is sad, because I and other have spent millions on our networks to build a DS3/OC3 network and connect to all the NAPs. Now that we have done that we have people like uunet who have been peering with us for years saying bye bye.
be from the company that pulls the plug. Lets also note who its gonna hurt more... the company with fewer customer sites that need to get accessed. The complaint ratio between the two groups are gonna be wholly lopsided. The smaller ISP will receive far more complaints than the larger one.
Depends on the traffic flow, I.E. I have MUCH more traffic going from my network to uunet then my customer getting info from uunet. We don't do a lot of dialup or types of access that suck from other providers. The other providers like uunet are all getting more traffic then they are sending. Nathan Stratton President, NetRail,Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phone (888)NetRail NetRail, Inc. Fax (404)522-1939 230 Peachtree Suite 500 WWW http://www.netrail.net/ Atlanta, GA 30303 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength. - Psalm 33:16