[49448] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sprint peering policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Mon Jul 1 15:55:18 2002
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:41:43 -0400
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Phil Rosenthal <pr@isprime.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 01:38:57PM -0400, Phil Rosenthal wrote:
>
> I would venture to say that to WorldCom, all traffic is destined to a
> peer, or a customer, and they NEVER pay for traffic. Peering with them
> is entirely a courtesy from them to you, as they can always see you
> through their current peers.
I think you missed the definition of "tier 1"... Oh wait, we're all using
made-up definitions anyways. Nevermind.
> The fact that they failed, having had such extensive peering, proves
> that peering has no relation to financial difficulties (in my mind, at
> least)
You are one very confused individual.
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