This has always been the case, and traffic splay and origin/sink
management has been more important than cost savings since at
least 2002? Maybe 2001. Definitely before 2004.
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 08:42:06PM -0700, wbn wrote:
> Hi fellow NANOGers -
>
> I recently spent some time with peering coordinators at industry events
> (NANOG, EPF, AFPIF, UKNOF, etc.) where I asked ?How does Internet Peering
> affect Internet Security??
>
> The result of this exercise is a white paper, currently in its draft 4-page
> form, entitled ?How Internet Peering Improves Security.?
>
> What I need now are a handful of people that are interested in this subject
> and willing to let me talk through the draft in order to solicit direct
> feedback. If interested, please send email to w...@drpeering.net with
> subject: "Review How Internet Peering Improves Security" and I will reach out
> to schedule some time.
>
> Thanks in advance -
>
> Bill
>
> PS - Here is the abstract to help you decide if you are interested in helping
> me document this for the community, and yes, as usual, I will be happy to
> share the resulting white paper with anyone interested.
>
>
> How
> Internet Peering Improves Security
>
> William B. Norton <w...@drpeering.net>
>
>
>
> Abstract
>
> Denial-of-Service attacks continue to flood the Internet at increasing scale.
> They attack specific targets, while, as a side affect, disrupt any traffic
> that traverses the network attack paths. During these attacks, impacted
> Internet users may experience intermittent problems, such as video freeze
> frames, garbled audio during phone or Skype calls, or error messages
> indicating that their Internet cloud service is unavailable.
>
> The ubiquitous and open nature of the Internet is both its value and its
> downfall. All one needs for access to cloud storage systems (DropBox,
> Box.net, etc.) is an Internet connection. This also means that attackers
> need only a few thousand broadband computers, infected with viruses and taken
> over as zombies, to exploit this open Internet ecosystem and overwhelm even
> the most robust Internet services.
>
> The attacks are not predictable in time, scope, or scale, and the impacts are
> far reaching, well beyond the source and destinations of the attacks. For
> these reason, the commodity Internet may not suitable for a subset of
> Internet applications. For example, some enterprise mission-critical
> applications require consistency simply unavailable from today?s Internet
> Transit services.
>
> There is however a well-known interconnection approach that improves this
> situation: an interconnection technique call ?Internet Peering.? This paper
> will introduce Internet Peering and discuss how Internet security is improved
> simply by using this common interconnection technique.
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