[33337] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UUNET peering policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Fraizer)
Tue Jan 9 05:07:41 2001
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 05:05:31 -0500 (EST)
From: John Fraizer <nanog@EnterZone.Net>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
>
> Hmm, what are they trying to prove? They want to own the Internet no
> doubt. I'd prefer to pay another like Genuity for transit to UUNET than
> pay them direct and feed their appetite for power.
>
Agreed. I am constantly telling UUNET sales monkeys that we'll gladly buy
transit directly from them, as soon as they meet or beat the $ per Mb/s
that we're currently getting. For now, I'll pay the 3ms "latency tax" to
save 50% on the transit bill.
(UUNET Sales Monkeys, do you read this list? STOP CALLING ME UNTIL YOU
FIX YOUR PRICES!)
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John Fraizer
EnterZone, Inc
