At 1:53 PM -0800 1/30/97, Steven Eric Rubin wrote:

I pulled this off of ba.internet, thought you might find this interesting..

Did they by any chance come up with this place where small ISPs can meet, presumably agree on common routing policies as seen by the world, keep local traffic local, and (although it's not mentioned) perhaps default to a higher-level provider? Gee...it would sound as if they want to cooperate in their policies, but autonomously of other people outside their local area, who would see them as a single system. What could they call it? An autonomous system. I like that. I have heard of a financial type, tired of paying more and more for floor space for the server farm, brought in steel-frame industrial shelving and stacked servers several high. He called this new configuration the Main Frame. Howard

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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.