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Re: BBN Peering issues

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Aug 14 17:09:50 1998

Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:59:02 -0500
From: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
To: nanog@merit.edu

>The next step will be "you must pay a hefty price for every packet
>transitting our pipes", directing transitting (packets only going through
>specified routes) and strong-arm tactics on the smaller players to sign up
>with one specific network.  Then you'll see regulation akin to what telcos
>have, with the concommitant expense.  

Who remembers TELENET?

Formerly owned by GTE, then SPRINT.

Where do you think senior corporate management comes from?
-- 
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
  Affiliation given for identification not representation

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