[18669] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBN Peering issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Thu Aug 13 18:34:55 1998
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 17:41:27 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980812092555.10288A-100000@thuule.pair.com>; from Adam Rothschild <asr@millburn.net> on Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 09:39:46AM -0400
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 09:39:46AM -0400, Adam Rothschild wrote:
> > If anyone would like to communicate privately about the BBN Peering issues,
> > please drop me an email, or call.
>
> I would like to communicate openly and publicly about this.
>
> 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.
>
> That is, a public explanation other than the all-too-obvious "We're
> greedy. Welcome to the business world. We're not going to change our
> minds, so shut the fuck up and buy some transit, you dumb suckers."
Based on just that little slice of the conversation, is BBN doing what
UUnet apparently failed in _it's_ attempt to do last fall, to Jack
Rickard's (and my) vast amusement?
Cheers,
-- jra
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