[18617] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBN Peering issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Linneweh)
Wed Aug 12 14:59:36 1998
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:44:03 -0700
From: Henry Linneweh <linneweh@concentric.net>
To: alex@nac.net, nanog@merit.edu
I believe BBN was pressured by GTEI to do this and could isolate BBN and GETI
from peering with the internetwork, from a severe market backlash from
decisions
deemed harmful to the fabric of the internet itself, I am dismayed at this
greed.
Henry R. Linneweh
alex@nac.net wrote:
> Depending on who gives in first, and when.
>
> If Exodus breaks down and purchases connectivity from someone to get to
> BBN, then obviously is will not effect BBN in the slightest. If Exodus
> buys BBN routes from someone other than BBN (sprint, mci), then it gets
> quite funny; more PX's or MAE's get overloaded with traffic that was
> privately between Exodus and BBN, and BBN has caused one of its
> competitors (MCI/Sprint/whoever Exodus ends up buying from (if they do))
> to gain more revunue flow.
>
> Considering that BBN is the one who cut peering with Exodus, I presume
> Exodus will have a bad taste in thier mouth, and not buy from BBN (I could
> guess that BBN assumed this also).
>
> With all this in mond, BBN, IMHO, made a horrendously poor choice.
>
> BBN, turning peering into a boys club.
>
> > 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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