in this context, anyone who is a BGP speaker is an ISP. /bill
On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 07:34:25AM +0300, Hank Nussbacher wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jun 2011, rucasbr...@hushmail.com wrote: > > Please define ISP. > > -Hank > > >Hello, > > > >I wouldn't consider myself a network engineer, nor do I have any > >formal training, but why don't ISPs peer with every other ISP? It > >would only save EVERYONE money if they did this, no? Only issue I > >see is with possibly hijacked / malicious AS owners, but that's not > >very common to do without being caught. > > > >All the whole "don't peer with this guy" only makes your customers > >have worse latencies and paths to other people, making the Internet > >less healthy. > > > >Thanks, > >Rucas > > > >PS: sorry if I sent this twice; client lagged a bit. > > > >
