Re: the Internet Backbone

[craig () mci net (Craig A. Haney)]

At 02:44 PM 4/8/96, David ``Joel Katz'' Schwartz wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, Avi Freedman wrote:
>
> > Now, many 2nd level providers that *could* operate default-free choose
> > not to.  Even if you have three or more sets of 30k+ routes each, it
> > takes balls to risk dropping packets that your customers want you to
> > deliver just so that you can have the packet be dropped at your router
> > instead of at your (possibly backup) transit provider's router.
> >
> > Avi
>
>        Can't anyone who takes full routes from any tier 1 provider
> operate without a default route? And isn't it a reasonable assumption
> that if you don't have a route somewhere, odds are they don't have a
> route to you (assuming you do your own BGP routing) and so a default
> route is mostly pointless anyway?
>
>        What am I missing?
>
>        DS

you are missing the definitions of Peering vs. Transit.

craig