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Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers
From: John Curran <jcurran () bbnplanet com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 15:35:44 -0400
At 2:12 PM 4/30/96, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
... Setting aside the technological barriers to such an arrangement, an optimal configuration would be one in which all routing entities peer with one another at all available locations, so as to provide the shortest path between routing communities.
I believe that the optimal configuration would actually involve only one routing entity and no peering at all. I'm pleased that instead we've implemented a model which (while not optimal) allows for a growing Internet service provider industry. Solutions which are optimal under one constraint tend to degenerate in the real world. Shortest-exit routing and equivalent distributed peering is used to avoid settlements for transit costs. If there's a strong demand for dissimiliar peering, then it's likely to appear with settlements. /John
Current thread:
- Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers, (continued)
- Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers Steve Heimlich (Apr 29)
- Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers Vadim Antonov (Apr 30)
- Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers Peter Lothberg (Apr 30)
- Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers bmanning (Apr 30)
- Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers Tim Salo (Apr 30)
- Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers Randy Bush (Apr 30)
- Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers Matt Zimmerman (Apr 30)
- Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers Randy Bush (Apr 30)
- Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers Paul Ferguson (Apr 30)
- Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers Rob Gutierrez (Apr 30)
- Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers Curtis Villamizar (Apr 30)
- Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers John Curran (Apr 30)
- Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers Matt Zimmerman (Apr 30)
- Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers Justin W. Newton (Apr 30)
- Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers Michael Dillon (Apr 30)
- Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers Matt Zimmerman (Apr 30)