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Re: Peering Policies and Route Servers
- From: John Curran
- Date: Tue Apr 30 15:38:03 1996
- Phone: (617) 873-4398
- Usmail: 150 CambridgePark Drive, Cambridge, MA, 02140
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
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