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Re: Peering versus Transit

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Mon Sep 30 01:44:15 1996

Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 22:39:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net>
To: avg@quake.net, barney@databus.com, nanog@merit.edu

        > Pointing default to somebody over IXP is simply theft.
    
    Straw man.  You're the first one to substitute "default" for "peer".
    
        > when he's grown up enough to have population of his customer and
        > content providers to be sufficient leverage he will be
        > automatically accepted into the "Big something".
    
    If that were true, it would support your argument.  Since it's not,
    don't you agree that it simply makes the rest of your argument even
    more suspect?

    I love flame wars.  :-)
      
                             -Bill 

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