Re: Why don't ISPs peer with everyone?

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

 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, rucasbrown () 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.