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Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid,

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Tue Sep 21 01:33:44 2010

From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 05:32:29 +0000
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On Sep 21, 2010, at 11:01 AM, George Bonser wrote:

> If the ISPs are directly peering with the content provider at some IX, th=
e content provider gets what amounts to a free ride to the end user.


The counterargument is that the end-user has *already paid* the transit fee=
ds for said content.

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