[18605] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBN Peering issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Wed Aug 12 11:51:24 1998
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 08:32:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9808121003300.5734-100000@skipper.robotics.net>
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Nathan Stratton wrote:
> > What I would like more than anything right now is some official word from
> > high-up's at BBN regarding what this policy entails exactly, and what
> > their rationale is behind it.
Here is a news story from yesterday with quotes from John Curran
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/daily/980810h.html
> You know what is behind it, you mentioned it two paragraphs below,
> capitalism. BBN can make more money this way.
That is yet to be seen. If this move reduces the quality of connectivity
for their customers they could lose a lot of business too.
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