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Re: US-Asia Peering
From: Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 17:44:41 -0800 (PST)
> The LINX consists of a handful > of distributed and interconnected switches such that customers are able to > choose which site they want for colo. Likewise for the AMS-IX and a handful > of other dominant European exchanges. Correct. Within the metro area. That is, as has been documented many times over, a necessary condition for long-term stability. > >It's one of the many, many ways in which exchange points commit suicide. > > I'd love to see a list of the ways IXes commit suicide. Can you rattle off > a few? 1) Cross the trust threshhold in the wrong direction. 2) Cross the cost-of-transit threshhold in the wrong direction. 3) Increase shared costs until conditions 1 and/or 2 are met. Those are sort of meta-cases which encompass most of the specific failure modes. Of course, you can always declare yourself closed or obsolete, a al MAE-East-FDDI, which I guess would be a fourth case, but rare. -Bill
Current thread:
- US-Asia Peering William B. Norton (Jan 02)
- Re: US-Asia Peering Stephen Stuart (Jan 03)
- Re: US-Asia Peering Jeff Barrows (Jan 03)
- Re: US-Asia Peering David Diaz (Jan 03)
- Re: US-Asia Peering Jared Mauch (Jan 03)
- Re: US-Asia Peering Bill Woodcock (Jan 03)
- Re: US-Asia Peering Joe Provo (Jan 03)
- Re: US-Asia Peering Stephen Stuart (Jan 03)
- Re: US-Asia Peering Jeff Barrows (Jan 03)
- Re: US-Asia Peering William B. Norton (Jan 09)
- Re: US-Asia Peering Bill Woodcock (Jan 09)
- Re: US-Asia Peering Stephen J. Wilcox (Jan 09)
- Re: US-Asia Peering Randy Bush (Jan 09)
- Re: US-Asia Peering William B. Norton (Jan 09)
- Re: US-Asia Peering Randy Bush (Jan 09)
- Re: US-Asia Peering William B. Norton (Jan 09)
- Re: US-Asia Peering Paul Vixie (Jan 09)
- Re: US-Asia Peering Stephen Stuart (Jan 03)
- Re: US-Asia Peering Stephen Stuart (Jan 09)
- Re: US-Asia Peering Bill Woodcock (Jan 09)
- Re: US-Asia Peering Neil J. McRae (Jan 10)
- Re: US-Asia Peering Stephen J. Wilcox (Jan 10)