[72248] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.)
Sat Jul 3 12:33:49 2004
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 11:31:05 -0500
From: "Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407031822210.24876-100000@uplift.swm.pp.se>
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Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Randy Bush wrote:
>
>
>>no. in the first case, you're just hiding the incremental costs.
>>eventually, some bean counter is gonna want to recover them, and
>>then folk get quite unhappy.
>
>
> What costs are you referring to? You basically need a few hours time per
> month from engineers and billing department. This for an exchange that has
> 20 ISPs connected to it. The amount of traffic isn't really a factor, but
> the one I know of and am part of running carries multi-gigabit.
Does the person that sweeps the floor do so for free? And supply the
broom?
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