[LINK] Australian ISP Peering

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

> You'll get much more recent information on the website of the company
> that actually runs the peering points - PIPE.
> http://www.pipenetworks.com/Peering/who.shtml


Thanks, Scott. Hence, can we not simply pass legislation that requires
our big-four Aussie access providers (Telstra etc) and indeed ALL ISPs
in Australia to join PIPE, or a similiar service which peers with PIPE?

Surely this would be relatively simple Aussie legislation, wouldn't it?

So, one may be missing something, but ALL our major access AND content 
providers peering locally, must surely be a much better/faster/cheaper
arrangement.  It would certainly free-up our OS pipes quite incredibly.

Hence, Tom's emails with his co-workers then simply go via Sydney, and
NOT via America. How stupid, wastefull and quite simply idiotic is our
present system?  When you think about it, we are STUPID to accept this!


Cheers,
Stephen