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Yep.
What comes with this is that Exodus and the rest of the world have the
freedom to inform our customers and the public in general of (1) what we
ascertain the situation to be, (2) how we analyze it, and (3) what we
recommend that customers of both Exodus and BBN do in response.
Whether the rest of you like it or not.
Well that's all fine and dandy. however the internet has worked for 20 years
that
I have been asssociated with it, on the working principal that no one
hassled or
encumbered peering charges and there were no board rooms or stockholders
and that is why it worked, because people knew what they were doing.
The admins and network engineers that do this daily for a living or
scientific
researcher that develope codes and methods to do it better made this happen
and certainly not the latter and from my view it WORKED.
Adding Joe Blow to the picture is like elevating A Janitor to Director of
Network
Services and turning him/her loose in the NOC.
Well that's all fine and dandy. however the internet has worked for 20 years
that
I have been asssociated with it, on the working principal that no one
hassled or
encumbered peering charges and there were no board rooms or stockholders
and that is why it worked, because people knew what they were doing.
The reason it's worked is that connecting network A to network B
generally provides value to both, so we've had a multi-decade
connectfest. Value of connecting exceeded cost of connecting.
Lately we are seeing shadings between the traditional "customer/peer"
dichotomy. Traditionally peers treated each other as true equals
because the cost of determining the relative value to A of connecting
to B and to B of connecting to A in order to determine who should pay
whom, including badwill cost, exceeded the expected payment.
BBN thinks is no longer the case and if you are going to convince them
otherwise, you'll have to convince them that it is in *their* best
interest to continue free peering with Exodus, not that it is in
"the Internet's" best interest.
As Karl says, an effective way to do that is to cancel your BBN
contract. In fact this is almost certainly the only effective way to
convince them. If you're not a BBN customer there is no reason they
should listen to you.
According to BBN's version of the story, Exodus is a customer and not a
peer. If I had my way I would offer every BBN customer that was not dual
homed free connectivity to one of our Data Centers for a year.
Unfortunately we are not a traditional access provider in that we offer
colocation connectivty rather than circuit connectivity.
At any rate, I agree that the ultimate decision will be made by the
stockholders and BBN customers. It is unfortunate that in the mean time
a few unknowing BBN customers will lose connectivity to some of the
largest web sites on the Internet.
Mark
Michael Shields wrote:
At any rate, I agree that the ultimate decision will be made by the
stockholders and BBN customers. It is unfortunate that in the mean time
a few unknowing BBN customers will lose connectivity to some of the
largest web sites on the Internet.
Yes. If I were a BBN customer I'd be very upset -- because BBN would
have reduced the value of my connection to them. Not because they are
violating Internet ideals.
As luck would have it, BBN is waiting on me to renew our T3 Monday. I'd
say that should give me a good opportunity to let them know how I feel!
Now if GoodNet would finally deliver their circuit to us I'd feel much
less worried.
Henry Linneweh wrote:
Adding Joe Blow to the picture is like elevating A Janitor to Director of
Network
Services and turning him/her loose in the NOC.
I know a nation-wide ISP which is being directed by
an ex-fastfood manager.
Note also my new address.
--vadim
PS Reality is more screwed up than you imagine.