Deadline extension: ICNS 2009 + 1st Workshop LMPCNAP | April 21-25, 2009 - Valencia, Spain

2008-10-31 Thread Jaime Lloret Mauri
Note that the deadline extension for ICNS 2009 has been extended to November 10. We would like to make ICNS 2009 a primary reference event. Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results. Pl

RE: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-31 Thread Paul Stewart
Hi there... We've done the financial study and we've taken great lengths in netflow analysis to do estimated traffic flows at each peering location etc. This was factored before I posted and as I mentioned in an earlier posting - the cost element is pretty much addressed already with our transit/p

RE: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-31 Thread Nick Hilliard
The most interesting part of the press release to me is: In the over 1300 on-net locations worldwide where Cogent provides service, Cogent is offering every Sprint-Nextel wireline customer that is unable to connect to Cogent's customers a free 100 megabit per second connection to the Internet f

RE: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-31 Thread Paul Stewart
There was no attempt to provoke controversy - I'm in the OP in this... there have been many replies that don't relate to my question though... I don't believe I have a lack of understanding neither - we do smaller scale peering today. I was however trying to look for positive and negative reasons

The Cidr Report

2008-10-31 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri Oct 31 21:32:47 2008 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of AS2.0 router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org for a current version of this report. Recent Table History Date

BGP Update Report

2008-10-31 Thread cidr-report
BGP Update Report Interval: 29-Sep-08 -to- 30-Oct-08 (32 days) Observation Point: BGP Peering with AS2.0 TOP 20 Unstable Origin AS Rank ASNUpds % Upds/PfxAS-Name 1 - AS9583 194959 1.8% 174.2 -- SIFY-AS-IN Sify Limited 2 - AS4538 117869 1.1%

Re: Another driver for v6?

2008-10-31 Thread Tore Anderson
* David W. Hankins > It is almost lunacy to deploy IPv6 in a customer-facing sense (note > for example Google's choice to put its on a separate FQDN). At > this point, I'd say people are still trying to figure out how clients > will migrate to IPv6. Which seems like a pretty bad time to sti

Re: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-31 Thread Justin Shore
Nick Hilliard wrote: And they'll do it to others in future peering spats. It's just a bullying tactic - entertaining if you're on the sideline; irritating if you're Sprint. Cogent reminds me of Ethan Coen's poem, which starts: The loudest has the final say, The wanton win, the rash h

RE: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-31 Thread Paul Stewart
Best guess would be traffic ratio related - that always seems to be related to de-peering. One side doesn't like the amount of traffic coming in versus going out etc... Paul -Original Message- From: Justin Shore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 9:03 AM To: Nic

Re: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-31 Thread Joe Greco
> > This wasn't the first time Cogent offered something similar. They did the > > same thing when Level3 depeered them. > > And they'll do it to others in future peering spats. It's just a bullying > tactic - entertaining if you're on the sideline; irritating if you're Sprint. It is certainly

Re: Depeering as an IPv6 driver (was: Re: Sprint / Cogent)

2008-10-31 Thread Carlos Friacas
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Brandon Galbraith wrote: On 10/30/08, Jared Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Oct 30, 2008, at 6:55 PM, Deepak Jain wrote: I wonder if judicious use of 6to4 and Teredo would allow an IPv6 (single homed) user to access now missing parts of the Internet. Me thinks, yes

RE: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-31 Thread Alex Rubenstein
> So why do SPs keep depeering Cogent? Serious question, why? I'm not > aware of any Intercage-like issues with them. I've actually considered > them as a potential upstream when we expand into a market they serve. Because some SP's still have a sour taste in their mouth about what Cogent did

Re: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-31 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Oct 31, 2008, at 7:47 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote: The most interesting part of the press release to me is: In the over 1300 on-net locations worldwide where Cogent provides service, Cogent is offering every Sprint-Nextel wireline customer that is unable to connect to Cogent's customers a

Re: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-31 Thread Larry Sheldon
Alex Rubenstein wrote: Why do I say stupid? Because, if companies like Sprint continue to do things like what Sprint is doing, this will certainly lead to being noticed by legislators, and the next thing we know we will have federally regulated peering or backbone network operating. I can see i

Re: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-31 Thread Larry Sheldon
Larry Sheldon wrote: I think you are wrong to the extent that BOP will be under the Department Of Fairness. OOps. My bad. Ministry of Fairness.

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 30 Oct 2008, at 13:03, HRH Sven Olaf Prinz von CyberBunker-Kamphuis >MP wrote: >> (the amsix with their many outages and connected parties that rely >> primarliy on it's functionality is a prime example here) > >I run i

RE: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-31 Thread Jon Lewis
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Nick Hilliard wrote: This wasn't the first time Cogent offered something similar. They did the same thing when Level3 depeered them. And they'll do it to others in future peering spats. It's just a bullying tactic - entertaining if you're on the sideline; irritating if

Re: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-31 Thread Elmar K. Bins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Lewis) wrote: > It seems to me, it's a rather empty offer though. How many Sprint > customers affected by the Sprint/Cogent depeering are actually in > facilities where they can get that free Cogent connection without paying > for expensive backhaul to reach Cogent and a

Re: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-31 Thread Jared Mauch
On Oct 31, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote: Alex Rubenstein wrote: Why do I say stupid? Because, if companies like Sprint continue to do things like what Sprint is doing, this will certainly lead to being noticed by legislators, and the next thing we know we will have federally regulate

Re: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-31 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Oct 31, 2008, at 10:12 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: On Oct 31, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote: Alex Rubenstein wrote: Why do I say stupid? Because, if companies like Sprint continue to do things like what Sprint is doing, this will certainly lead to being noticed by legislators, and th

Re: Comcast contact

2008-10-31 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Colin Alston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The URL Comcast gives with the spam block message is invalid. I doubt > I'll get action through their support channels either, and I can't even > find a useful looking one of those on their website... The URL you want is ht

Re: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-31 Thread Brian Raaen
I would have to agree with Alex that if behavior like this doesn't stop that the Fed would get involved(regardless of which party is in office). Is this type of behavior called 'peer pressure', maybe there are care groups to help these victims. Overall... it is one thing if Sprint and Cogent g

Re: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-31 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 31/10/2008 13:23, Joe Greco wrote: It is certainly not "just" a bullying tactic. It may be "A" bullying tactic, I won't even attempt to guess at the intent, but the tactic also has the very real side effect of re-establishing full connectivity to Sprint-connected sites that lose it. you-re

Re: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-31 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Alex Rubenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why do I say stupid? > > Because, if companies like Sprint continue to do things like what Sprint is > doing, this will > certainly lead to being noticed by legislators, and the next thing we know we > will have federa

Re: Another driver for v6?

2008-10-31 Thread David W. Hankins
Google's statistics are using themselves as the subject, a fixed point in the network. It's hard to guarantee that subjective experience is going to be equal across the entirety of the network, but let us presume for the purpose of discussion that they are. I think the point in the final analysis

Re: Another driver for v6?

2008-10-31 Thread David W. Hankins
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:55:01PM +, Andy Davidson wrote: > Do you think that industry should be working to some kind of well supported > / worldwide flag day when lots of popular resources add v6 records at the > same time ? This is a sound evolutionary tactic lemmings use. =) But I'll t

Re: Another driver for v6?

2008-10-31 Thread Mike Lewinski
David W. Hankins wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:55:01PM +, Andy Davidson wrote: Do you think that industry should be working to some kind of well supported / worldwide flag day when lots of popular resources add v6 records at the same time ? This is a sound evolutionary tactic lemmings

Re: Another driver for v6?

2008-10-31 Thread David W. Hankins
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:41:01AM -0600, Mike Lewinski wrote: >> This is a sound evolutionary tactic lemmings use. =) > > I know this is way OT, but I can't let it pass. The lemming suicide myth > was created by a very questionable Walt Disney documentary: This is also way OT, but I was actuall

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-31 Thread Paul Vixie
"Paul Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... > > My question was meant at a much higher level - a level where costs are > equal for peering/transit and all the "technical" and the "financial" > homework has been done already now I'm the stage of one last meeting > with top level managemen

RE: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-31 Thread Paul Stewart
Why does the controversy word keep coming up? You're the third person now to ask if I was trying to provide controversy and for the third time , NO I AM NOT. And again, I *do* understand the issues at hand - although some new viewpoints I hadn't considered before came up and thank you. My questi

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-31 Thread Steven King
My company will be peering with two other SPs in the area purely for business strategic purposes. It turns out that at least one of these SPs owns the fiber running to the first CO in our transit back to Chicago. So it helps to be buddies with these companies. Paul Vixie wrote: > "Paul Stewart" <[

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-31 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Oct 31, 2008, at 12:56 PM, Paul Stewart wrote: Why does the controversy word keep coming up? You're the third person now to ask if I was trying to provide controversy and for the third time , NO I AM NOT. And again, I *do* understand the issues at hand - although some new viewpoints I h

Re: Peering - Benefits?

2008-10-31 Thread Joe Malcolm
vijay gill writes: >This is probably going to be a somewhat unpopular opinion, mostly >because people cannot figure out their COGS. If you can get transit >for cheaper than your COGS, you are better off buying transit and not >peering. There are some small arguments to be made for latency and >'ch

Re: Another driver for v6?

2008-10-31 Thread Jeroen Massar
David W. Hankins wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:41:01AM -0600, Mike Lewinski wrote: >>> This is a sound evolutionary tactic lemmings use. =) >> I know this is way OT, but I can't let it pass. The lemming suicide myth >> was created by a very questionable Walt Disney documentary: > > This is

RE: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-31 Thread Randy Epstein
If you haven't already seen it, the great Todd Underwood of Renesys published an article today on his blog regarding this subject: http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/10/wrestling-with-the-zombie-spri.shtml An aside, WV Fiber (AS19151) is currently partitioned from Cogent since AS19151 only contract

Re: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-31 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 01:20:23PM -0400, Randy Epstein wrote: > We hope Sprint and Cogent work out their differences, but in the mean time, > we unfortunately will remain partitioned from Cogent. Randy, This brings up something I've always wondered. Why do we have public depeeri

Re: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-31 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 31, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Majdi S. Abbas wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 01:20:23PM -0400, Randy Epstein wrote: We hope Sprint and Cogent work out their differences, but in the mean time, we unfortunately will remain partitioned from Cogent. Randy, This brings up something

Re: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-31 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Oct 31, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Maybe they can bring it up at the November 4th FCC open meeting : [snip] While I agree regulation is a possible outcome, I am always amazed at the US gov't self-delusion that they can somehow regulate something like the Internet. End

Weekly Routing Table Report

2008-10-31 Thread Routing Analysis Role Account
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Deadline extension: ICNS 2009 + 1st Workshop LMPCNAP | April 21-25, 2009 - Valencia, Spain

2008-10-31 Thread Jaime Lloret Mauri
Note that the deadline for ICNS 2009 + 1st Workshop LMPCNAP has been extended to November 10. We would like to make ICNS 2009 a primary reference event. Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientifi

Re: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-31 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
Sent from my iPhone On 31 okt 2008, at 19.05, "Patrick W. Gilmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Oct 31, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Maybe they can bring it up at the November 4th FCC open meeting : [snip] While I agree regulation is a possible outcome, I am always amaz

Re: Another driver for v6?

2008-10-31 Thread HRH Sven Olaf Prinz von CyberBunker-Kamphuis MP
ever heard of the concept "open market" ipv4 address space delegations will just move from the rirs to places like ebay, problem solved. most of it is unused anyway (milnet, amateur radio ranges, etc) -- HRH Sven Olaf Prinz von CyberBunker-Kamphuis, MP. Minister of Telecommunications, Republic

Re: Sprint / Cogent

2008-10-31 Thread Brandon Butterworth
> So why do SPs keep depeering Cogent? Karma. brandon

BBC Contact

2008-10-31 Thread hamster
Hello, If there is anyone from the BBC ip/peering dept here, please could they contact me offlist concerning a problem we have? Thanks, Chris

Re: BBC Contact

2008-10-31 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Fri Oct 31, 2008 at 10:08:06PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If there is anyone from the BBC ip/peering dept here, please could they > contact me offlist concerning a problem we have? [EMAIL PROTECTED] should reach the right people. Let me know if you get no response from that address and

Why do some companies get depeered and some don't?

2008-10-31 Thread Nelson Lai
Why do some companies like Cogent get depeered relatively often and companies like Teleglobe don't even get talked about and operate in silence free from depeering? -- Hyundai to launch the i20 in India. Catch the exclusive preview on ZigWheels.com http://www.zigwheels.com/b2cam/newsDetails.act