Sprint peering policy

Mon Jul 1 19:42:18 UTC 2002

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Phil Rosenthal <pr at isprime.com> wrote:
>Apples and oranges.  Wcom isn't talking about dropping AT&T as a peer,
>they just don't want to peer with "Joe Six Pack ISP".  Wcom would likely
>not peer with most ISPs, and I wouldn't expect them to.  They gain
>absolutely nothing from it, and the small ISPs gain plenty.  Wcom's
>costs only increase since they need "more ports".

Wcom could peer with "Joe Six Pack ISP" at an exchange if

- connection cost is very low (shared ethernet)
- they don't peer with Joe's upstream at the same location
- they only announce regional routes to Joe
- they use hot potato routing everywhere

in that case, the peering would just be local/regional, probably
all that Joe is after anyway

Mike.