On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 14:45 +1200, Matthew Poole wrote:
*SNIP*
people are screaming for peering. They look at the NZ as been quite ahead of them on this issue. So many ISP's are having to use Co-Lo *SNIP*
NZ is ahead of the world on this. The ability for organisations, regardless of size, to peer for the cost of access is unique.
And pioneered by CityLink's PublicLAN and APE activities... NZ is sometimes described as "overly egalitarian." And so small, and so far away, we can't really afford to indulge in self-destructive internecine behaviour. It is possibly part of the reason (small and well connected) that NZ can deal with defectors, aka Net4ME, as easily as we do. Concepts like ease of affinity, or "social capital" depend on trust, where that can be established quickly, those who are not trustworthy can be excluded quickly. Its not a meritocracy, certainly not a closed self-selecting one, its just open. P2P anarchy really, or better, E2E. "Thus cooperation can emerge even in a world of unconditional defection. The development cannot take place if is is tried only by scattered individuals who have no chance to interact with each other. But cooperation can emerge from small clusters of discriminating individuals, as long as these individuals have even a small proportion of their interactions with each other. Moreover, if nice strategies (those which are never the first to defect) come to be adopted by virtually everyone, then those individuals can afford to be generous in dealing with any others. By doing so well with each other, a population of nice rules can protect themselves against clusters of individuals using any other strategy just as well as they can protect themselves against single individuals. But for a nice strategy to be stable in the collective sense, it must be provocable. So mutual cooperation can emerge in a world of egoists without central control by starting with a cluster of individuals who rely on reciprocity." Robert Axelrod "The Evolution of Co-operation" Sounds like NZNOG to me. Hamish. PS: http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-8-1319.jsp -- When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl. --Floating Around the Internet