Ungodly packet loss rates

Mon Oct 21 23:39:41 UTC 1996

Jeff,

I think you may miss the point.

In the commercial Internet world, I have to pay for my network.  If I'm a
big guy, my main value is hauling traffic long distances.  How am I to make
a profit (or even maintain my network) if 1) I can't exchange traffic with the 
other long haul providers without significant loss, and 2) I give free access
to all of my most opportune customers?

I doubt that the people who design, engineer, and install these networks
feel at all that way about open naps.  They have been driven to a business
decision.  In many peoples eyes it may not have been the best decision, but
it happens to be the easiest and quickest method to quench the bleeding.
We are at a point where the traffic growth is causing a lot of people to 
re-evaluate their network design philosophy.  We haven't even begun to
see the final shape of thinks (All IMHO)

Chris

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From:  Jon Zeeff[SMTP:jon at branch.net]
Sent:  Monday, October 21, 1996 2:15 PM
To:  Chris A. Icide
Cc:  dalvenjah at dal.net; emv at coast.net; nanog at merit.edu
Subject:  Re: Ungodly packet loss rates

In other words, the big players don't like the "open" naps and 
are deliberately not installing sufficient bandwidth to them?

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