[18853] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: BBN Peering issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cheops POP)
Wed Aug 19 15:53:58 1998
From: cheops POP <giza@cheops.mv.com>
Reply-To: <giza@blackpearl.net>
To: "Nanog@Merit. Edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Cc: "Jeremiah Kristal" <jeremiah@fs.IConNet.NET>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 22:21:59 -0400
In-Reply-To: <002101bdca3d$ac273b70$010010ac@tigger>
> If your traffic is largely based on "client" side applications
> then guess what, your gonna have a lot of in-bound traffic.
> This whining is tantamount to AT&T whining about MCI clients
> calling their moms who have AT&T long distance! If your business
duh! this is "settlement" as Jeremiah Kristal so kindly reminded me.
I guess the idea of settlement seemed so bizarre I dismissed it.
(if I could only hide behind the satire it was thought to be,=)
> model doesn't account for such anomalies, what are ya gonna do?
> ask mom for a charge on her incoming calls?)
The point _was_ that if your highly dependent on dialup users who
sit in front of a browser then your gonna get thwacked. I'll shutup
now.
-pete
