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Re: a question about the economics of peering

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BrandonButterworth)
Fri Nov 30 12:48:30 2001

From: brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk (BrandonButterworth)
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:47:50 GMT
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To: nanog@merit.edu
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> where if you peer with the network that has
> the congestion and there is no money changing hands there is not
> a lot of incentive for them to fix it just for you.

I don't see how paying someone to transit to their congested peers
network is better than just peering with the congested network
yourself. 

brandon

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