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Re: peering charges?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Heiliger)
Sun Jan 26 03:15:15 1997

Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 00:11:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Jonathan Heiliger <loco@isi.net>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199701260754.XAA04317@quest.pluris.com>

On Sat, 25 Jan 1997, Vadim Antonov wrote:

|} There are no settlements because traffic has little relevance to
|} relative worth of connectivity from one provider to another.  The large
|} ISPs are generally interested in market share or peers, not in volume
|} of mutual traffic. 

Large ISPs should probably be interested in access to content, without it
their users could find the Internet a very boring place.


-jh-


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