Re: neutral interconnects in Europe

[Kees Neggers <]

Although I support both Peter Daws and Peter Kirsteins concerns about 
European connectivity and the possible need for European traffic to 
fly via the US, I like to point out that it is not the INIX, but the
providers who are responsible for payload traffic exchange.
As indicated in the statement, a possible and likely future 
requirement for an INIX, but than it will probably change
name, will be to be part of a distributed GIX. The associated
requirements for that are currently under investigation in the D-GIX
developments activities.

Kees Neggers

==> From: P.Kirstein@localhost

>      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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