Middle Eastern Exchange Points

Wed Feb 8 18:41:00 UTC 2006

      On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, william(at)elan.net wrote:
    > So what exactly is definition of transit that does not make it peering?

Transit is the exchange of TRANSITIVE routes to destinations which are not 
the downstream customers of either of the two parties to the transaction.

    > And when ISP A buys access from ISP B for purpose of getting to ISP C is
    > that peering or transit?

That's transit.
                                -Bill