On 22/02/2010 12:29, Martin Swany wrote:
From a practical perspective, links are always "owned." For a zero-cost link at an exchange point, the ownership may be less clear, but even in that case, our perspective has been that the egress part of the unidirectional link is owned by the network/node/port that is driving it. The link itself really has few properties outside of propagation delay and loss, but has addressing and queueing properties that are assigned to the port driving it and that port *always* has an owner.
How would that apply to a fiber that is connected to an open exchange (e.g. GOLE)? The port on that exchange would be owned by the network connecting to that exchange. So would the unidirectional link *to* the exchange. Who would own the unidirectionl link *from* the exchange? Jeroen.