UUNET peering policy

john heasley heas at shrubbery.net
Sun Jan 14 19:00:08 UTC 2001


Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 01:24:32AM -0800, Paul Vixie:
> 
> sean at donelan.com (Sean Donelan) writes:
> 
> ...another stunningly well researched, accurate and articulate article,
> including the following:
> 
> > ... The imbalance issue has come up a few more times with other
> > providers such as PSI, Abovenet and others.
> 
> To the best of my knowledge, AboveNet has never insisted on any particular
> traffic balance with any of our peers.  Send to us 10:1, 1:10, 1:1, whatever.
> Any traffic coming or going over a peering connection is to or from one of
> AboveNet's customers, which means we're paid (by that customer) to deliver it.
> (Any other policy amounts to wanting to be paid twice for the same packet.)

yes!  hopefully those who insist upon particular ratios groked that.

> Of course I can't commend on PSI or any of the other companies Sean mentioned.
> -- 
> Paul Vixie <Paul.Vixie at MMFN.COM>
> CTO and SVP, MFN (NASDAQ: MFNX)
> 
> AboveNet, PAIX, and MIBH are subsidiaries of Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc.




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