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Re: Generation of traffic in "settled" peering arrangement

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Tue Aug 25 01:02:10 1998

Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 23:56:50 -0400
To: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@namesecure.com>
From: John Curran <jcurran@bbnplanet.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.96.980824152013.17877A-100000@po1.namesecure.co
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At 04:14 PM 08/24/1998 -0700, Patrick Greenwell wrote:

>The net effect is that the transit provider is double-dipping, 
>and it costs the receiver twice to receive the data. 
>
>Somehow this doesn't seem to be very attractive to me. 

You're paying half the cost currently, the sender (presuming
they're transit or a relatively balanced peer) is paying the 
other half.

/John

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