Arbitrary de-peering

Mon Jul 28 20:23:10 UTC 2008

Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, William Waites wrote:

>> Tier 1 has enough peering relationships with enough other Tier 1 
>> networks that they can always buy temporary transit privileges over an 
>> existing link.

Every peering agreement I've seen has language to the effect that an 
entity can't both be a transit customer and a peer.  Even if allowed, 
the temporary transit privileges would need to be provisioned and turned 
up which isn't going to happen instantaneously.

> Tier 1 means you don't buy transit, no?

"We are a Tier 1 provider" tends to mean "I am a salesperson".

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