[26067] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verio Decides what parts of the internet to drop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Fri Dec 3 14:46:29 1999
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 11:44:56 -0800
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
Message-Id: <199912031944.LAA18157@kitty.kotovnik.com>
To: rmeyer@mhsc.com, tony1@home.net
Cc: alex@nac.net, doug@safeport.com, nanog@merit.edu,
rbush@bainbridge.verio.net
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Tony Li wrote:
> Wouldn't it be nice if backbones got around to simply charging for annoucements
> and quit this arbitrary filtering?
Great idea, but charges should apply to _peers_, not customers.
Charging customers for announces prefixes merely creates an incentive
for backbone operators to announce more routes and, correspondingly,
collect more money.
--vadim
