Talk:IP transit

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If we wish to merge IP Transit and Internet Transit, I would like to make sure that we clearly distinguish the notion of the wholesale agreement for IP transit from the ideas of traffic exchange and routing. I specifically created and independent IP Transit entry on Wikipedia because I could not find a clear reference anywhere on the Internet which explained the least expensive way to purchase IP bandwidth by content providers. Over the past year, it seems to have become the de-facto reference by a number of other web sites and IP Transit seems to be the term wholesale providers now use to describe this commodity.

On another note, I do not object to removing the external links per se. Instead, and if there is concensus, I would recommend that we create an open directory link or I will also offer to host (at InterStream.com) a list of IP Transit providers. I think this is important for us to include in this entry because it enables potential bandwidth purchasers to become better educated on their choices of service and provides a standard list of (roughly) equivalent providers.

Other thoughts? Elencticdeictic 18:55, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, if you feel that both aspects need to be discussed, and I have no objection to that, then they need to be discussed explicitly within the same context, rather than in two competing and undifferentiated articles. If there's something specifically in this article which you feel is not currently reflected in the Internet Transit article, then please get it in there and we can wrap this up. Bill Woodcock 15:44, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

As stated in other article, these should be a single article, IMNSHO. What little difference that exists (if any) should be clearly spelled out in a single place. jzp 21:51, 28 January 2007 (UTC)