On Tue, Mar 17, 2020, at 19:59, Mike Hammett wrote: > Join an IX your provider is on?
As someone that works for an IXP these days, I would prefer *NOT* having to deal with people that do not understand the Internet ecosystem. Which hospitals, and most businesses are. An IXP is not an ISP targeting business/corporate. We're already dealing with people that do not understand what an IXP does, and open tickets every time a direct BGP session (one between 2 peers, not involving the route-server) goes down. Even had "Google is slow" tickets. Joining an IX purely for PNI/NNI interconnection may be an option, but only if you are 100% sure that the other party agrees an PNI/NNI over an IX. Some do, some don't, most don't even know it's a possibility.
