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RE: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity & facts
From: "David Schwartz" <davids () webmaster com>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 08:02:57 -0800
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
On Nov 4, 2008, at 9:49 AM, David Freedman wrote:
2. The Internet cannot "route around" de-peering I know everyone believes "the Internet routes around failures". While occasionally true, it does not hold in this case. To "route around" the "failure" would require transit. See item #1.The internet "routes around" technical failures, not political ones.
If two transit free networks have a technical failure which disables all peering between them, the Internet cannot route around it.
Sure it can. The traffic just flows through any of the providers that still have reliable high-bandwidth connectivity to both of those providers. Unless, of course, a pre-existing political failure prohibits this traffic. The Internet can't route around that political failure.
From a technical standpoint, the Internet is always suffering from multiple
political failures. This leaves it vulnerable to small technical failures it could otherwise route around. DS
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- Re: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity & facts Patrick W. Gilmore (Nov 03)
- Re: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity & facts Patrick W. Gilmore (Nov 04)
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