DISCLAIMER: Personal opinions At 03:33 PM 01/14/2001 -0800, Sean Donelan wrote:
It will be interesting to see what happens in 12 months when UUNET retroactively applies their policy to existing private interconnections.
As I read it: From http://www2.uu.net/peering/ "and adjusts the minimum operating requirements to current traffic levels.."
What if you are a web hosting company with data centers in a few large cities (chi, dal, la, nyc, sf) and don't meet UUNET's requirement to be located in 15 US states.
Then you have not made the same investment in infrastructure, and therefore are not a *peer*.
What if you are a major Canadian provider with POPs in every province from coast to coast, but only a few locations across the border in the USA. What if you are a major South American or African provider covering those entire continents, but with little presence in UUNET's strongholds of US, Europe and Asia.
The International problem is definitely a different issue. The existing model will probably hold true until the US is no longer the "center" of the network (traffic wise).