RE: Article about New Mexico's new IX and Co-OP

    > But this is an idea we're exploring, simply because we /can/
    > interconnect the two sites. These are within the same
    > extended metro area (they're about 45 minutes drive apart,
    > maybe 50 miles) which is one continuous metro area (though
    > lower density in the middle), so I'm not sure if that falls
    > into "interconnected metro sites" or "interconnected
    > cities". What factors determine that?

The step-function border is different for every participant; what you want
to try to gauge is where it's likely to fall for the largest number of
potential participants.  Not for most of your _current_ participants.

For example, Los Angeles and San Diego are clearly in different regions
for any carrier with a U.S. presence, although not for a Tele2 or Hanaro
or somebody like that.

San Francisco and San Jose, though, are in the same region for large
providers, but are different regions for small metro providers in, say,
Oakland or Los Gatos, which are an order of magnitude closer to one than
to the other.

For you guys, fifty miles of moderate-population Utah suburbia probably
aren't different regions for many providers.

Las Cruces and Los Angeles are clearly different regions for anyone who's
likely to ever have any interest in peering in New Mexico, though.

                                -Bill