On 25 Nov 2003, at 17:31, Tikiri Wicks wrote:
I realize that the APE and the WIX already exist but what I'm talking about is setting up a second peering point with different game rules. Namely Give as much as you take
If you're talking about traffic ratios, or some kind of settlement strategy according to give vs. take (for some values of give and take) then you're talking about an exchange which is more restrictive in policy than either the APE or the WIX. You also talked about an exchange with a multilateral peering policy. It may be worth noting that exchanges with restrictive policies tend not to prosper, and those with mandatory multilats invariably fail. There's nothing to stop a collection of like-minded people meeting at the APE and/or the WIX and doing their own thing, though. That's what the APE and WIX are there for, in fact.
What you guys don't seem to understand is that if all the smaller ISP's Maxnet, IHUG, Slingshot, etc.... were all combined into one (big lump) that is probably way more end consumers than what Telstra has.
Maxnet, IHUG and Slingshot have more collective customers than Xtra, CLEAR Net and Paradise? Really? Joe