Peering versus Transit

Mon Sep 30 05:48:35 UTC 1996

On Sun, 29 Sep 1996, Vadim Antonov wrote:

> Finally, most IXP operators do not seem to be diligent in explaining
> to new IXP members to be that being at IXP is by no means a guarantee
> that anybody would want to peer.

That would be putting it rather mildly. In fact some of the IXP sales droids
perpetuate the myth that connecting a _single_ IXP = connectivity to Internet
and mislead some poor clueless folks into buying IXP's services.

-dorian