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RE: Sprint peering policy
From: "Daniel Golding" <dgolding () sockeye com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:06:12 -0400
William, It would be quite surprising if an informational RFC changed anyone's peering policy or opinions on peering. Peering is as much or more so, a function of business and business relationships, rather than simply a technical method of accomplishing interconnection. Networks peer when they have a business reason to do so, regardless of their size. I suspect many engineers become upset when a large network won't peer with them, and assume that it is due to large-company cluelessness. While I am loath to suggest that some of these behemoths have an idea as to what they are doing, most can recognize a peering opportunity for what it is, and the effect it will have on their business. If they were only so good at truthfully reporting their accounting data...Oh well. - Daniel Golding
when this situation has existed in other industries, gov't intervention has always resulted. even when the scope is international. i've not been able to puzzle out the reason why the world's gov'ts have not stepped in with some basic interconnection requirements for IP carriers.Give example of other industry where such goverment intervention happened and has helped that industry? And what goverment exactly are we talking about - US Goverment? France Goverment? China Goverment? This is internet - its rules should not be based purely on decision of one single goverment. Perhaps an idea would be to write an advisery RFC on establishment of peering relationships by ISPs. While advisery does not mean everyone will follow, it'll allow groups within a company that are interested in more peering (network engineers..) to backup their words by an established internet standard. -- William Leibzon Elan Communications Inc.
Current thread:
- Re: Sprint peering policy, (continued)
- Re: Sprint peering policy Paul Vixie (Jul 01)
- Re: Sprint peering policy alex (Jul 01)
- RE: Sprint peering policy Deepak Jain (Jul 01)
- RE: Sprint peering policy Phil Rosenthal (Jul 01)
- Re: Sprint peering policy Richard A Steenbergen (Jul 01)
- Re: Sprint peering policy Paul Vixie (Jul 01)
- Re: Sprint peering policy Nigel Titley (Jul 02)
- RE: Sprint peering policy Deepak Jain (Jul 01)
- Re: Sprint peering policy David Lesher (Jul 01)
- Re: Sprint peering policy Richard Irving (Jul 01)
- Re: Sprint peering policy alex (Jul 02)
- RE: Sprint peering policy Phil Rosenthal (Jul 01)
- RE: Sprint peering policy Deepak Jain (Jul 01)
- RE: Sprint peering policy Stephen J. Wilcox (Jul 01)
- Re: Sprint peering policy Richard A Steenbergen (Jul 01)
- Re: Sprint peering policy E.B. Dreger (Jul 01)
- RE: Sprint peering policy Phil Rosenthal (Jul 01)