Re: neutral interconnects in Europe

     While I welcome this paper I think that it is ill judged that
     a INIX does not also require connection to at least one European
     D-GIX. As a result an INIX could send all their european traffic 
     via the US. 
     
     Peter Dawe 
     
     PIPEX

I agree with Peter, it would be most unfortunate if Europe-Europe traffic
was sent via a GIX in the US, and traversed the Atlantic via any research
link.  I note that there are recommendations that this not happen, but I am
not sure that this is strong enough.  For example, because of reciprocity,
the UK-US network provision may agree to accept traffic from the US GIX; 
it may not plan to accept traffic from a European operator who has got to
that GIX via another Europe-US route.

Peter Kirstein

     
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