[17209] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Great Exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Shields)
Wed May 27 18:43:49 1998
From: shields@crosslink.net (Michael Shields)
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To: perry@piermont.com
Cc: "Pickett, David" <dpickett@northc.com>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: 27 May 1998 22:34:18 +0000
In-Reply-To: "Perry E. Metzger"'s message of "Wed, 27 May 1998 13:44:08 -0400"
In article <199805271744.NAA21312@jekyll.piermont.com>,
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
> In the long run, why are we assuming there will be locality of
> traffic?
>
> It is true that the old PSTN has locality of traffic, but it doesn't
> have flat rate pricing, or the usage patterns that the Internet has.
Why are you assuming that the Internet will continue to have
non-distance-sensitive pricing, when it clearly has distance-
sensitive costs (ultimately)?
--
Shields, CrossLink.
