I think either I am missing the point or others are. We plan on sending traffic through each others backbones. In essence we will be one huge network. Sharing traffic. I can do this with private as numbers?

On Fri, 29 May 1998, John Golovich wrote:

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In the Detroit area alot of smaller ISPs are looking to create a peering between each other to create shorter router for wherever traffic needs to go (ie. transit routing).

This plan has been placed on hold and almost officially shelved because alot of the smaller ISPs dont see the need for an AS number.

Since it's private peering anyway, why not use 64xyz numbers?

Not to sound spoiled or something, but once those ISPs stop being small ISPs and become reasonably large ISPs they'll need an AS number anyway. $500 is way too much for an ASN, but it's not much compared to what I pay for a 4500 router.

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