[19129] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BBN/GTEI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tuomas Toivonen)
Thu Aug 27 12:54:51 1998
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 00:41:54 +0300
From: Tuomas Toivonen <toivotuo@fishpool.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980826144158.51918@mcs.net>; from Karl Denninger on Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 02:41:58PM -0500
On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 02:41:58PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote:
> None of this has ANYTHING to do with what the customer has purchased - which
> is TRANSIT TO THE ENTIRE INTERNET. Not just the parts that someone else
> will pay that same provider to communicate with.
CustA - NetA <-> NetB - CustB. Both customer are _buying_ for transit for the
whole source-destination path, but are _paying_ only for (in this case) half
of it. Customers share the costs, because providing service to each other is
considered beneficial. Therefore networks A and B peer if traffic is roughly
equal or exchange traffic with settlement fees if not.
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