[54319] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL & Cogent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Sat Dec 21 05:22:02 2002
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0212202228590.12350-100000@MrServer>
"from Stephen J. Wilcox at Dec 20, 2002 10:34:38 pm"
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 09:57:58 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>, Andrew Partan <asp@partan.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
From: neil@DOMINO.ORG (Neil J. McRae)
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Old rules, modern peering decisions arent made with such common sense ideas in
> mind but based on power play and a desire for everyone to be your customer!
Because investing in building a network is expensive and with the
push to reduce transit costs the revenue gap has to be made up
somewhere else.