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Re: Worldly Thoughts


From: John Curran <jcurran () bbnplanet com>
Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 00:31:03 -0400

At 11:47 PM 5/10/96, Matthew Kaufman wrote:

I understand that nationwide providers don't want to provide me with
"free transit", so, I suggest the following solutions (directed at 
those nationwide providers who don't peer with me, and networks like mine):

 1. Peer with me anyway, but don't accept any of my routes into your
    network... that allows me to do the same thing I would do if I were
    nationwide and doing quickest-exit (feed all traffic destined for your
    nationwide network into it at the west coast) without giving me the
    benefit of the return path... this is no more asymmetric than we've got
    now, and at least accelerates the one direction. I've got a transit
    provider, so I'm going to hand you the very same packets eventually...
    you might as well take them off my hands at the interconnect, rather
    than have them presented to you by my transit provider.

Interesting...   it does avoid the transit issue, so it's worth considering to 
some extent.   I'll note that the current west-coast interconnects are not 
exactly lacking traffic  so there may be cases where it may not be advisable 
to peer anyway if adds more traffic to the interconnect.

 2. Even better, accept my routes into your network but only use them 
    within region... I know this isn't nearly as easy as #1, so I don't
    expect it to happen, but it would be a significant performance benefit
    for the local traffic your customers in the region are generating which
    is headed towards me. Once outside the region, of course, you ignore the 
    direct routes from me and just give them to my transit provider.

It becomes very entertaining to scale the above model (although it does
provide an excuse to use nearly every BGP routing feature in IOS. :-)

/John


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