[18744] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBN Peering issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Shields)
Sun Aug 16 04:16:07 1998
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 07:59:21 +0000 (GMT)
From: shields@crosslink.net (Michael Shields)
To: mark@exodus.net (Mark Tripod)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <35D61426.BB50ED86@exodus.net>
> fundamentally important that these ideals be extended to the future of
> the Internet, if it is to have a future. No company should have the
> right to force another to pay for connectivity simply because the latter
> has not been around since the beginning or they are not a telco.
BBN is answerable to their customers and shareholders and not to your
or my ideals of how the Internet should work.
--
Shields, CrossLink.