[7239] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: peering charges?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Sun Jan 26 12:39:50 1997
To: nanog@MERIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 26 Jan 1997 02:38:55 PST."
<199701261038.CAA04577@quest.pluris.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 09:08:56 -0800
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
> >Large ISPs should probably be interested in access to content, without it
> >their users could find the Internet a very boring place.
>
> Not only that. They are also interested in peer's customer population
> gaining access to content (and ads) published by their own customers.
In other words there is a lot more money to be made by peering openly and
having excellent crossbar-like connectivity through a lot of peering points
than by worrying about ways that peering with you enables your competitors
to sell more circuits. I have heard that there may be a panel debate on
this subject at the upcoming NANOG meeting.
