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Re: Peering Table Question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (I Am Not An Isp)
Mon Apr 24 10:01:20 2000

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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 06:39:40 -0700
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From: I Am Not An Isp <patrick@ianai.net>
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At 10:21 AM 4/21/00 -0500, Mark Borchers wrote:
 >
 >You omitted the fact that the 1500 byte packets carry a bunch
 >of paid advertising, and thus are already revenue-producing.

And you omitted the fact that the 64 byte ACKs carry traffic by paying 
customers, and thus are already revenue-producing.

Does the fact that both networks are being paid by their customers mean 
that neither should pay the other?  Or that one should always pay the other?

TTFN,
patrick

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