[9008] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: UUNET settlement - A call to arms?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bownes, Robert M. (EXCH))
Fri May 2 18:51:58 1997
From: "Bownes, Robert M. (EXCH)" <RMBOWNES@intermedia.com>
To: "'Mike Leber'" <mleber@he.net>
Cc: "'James Saker'" <jsaker@intellitek.com>,
"'nanog@merit.edu'"
<nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 18:31:58 -0400
But I am still paying Sprint for transit, something I am philosophically
opposed to. Yes, the traffic is less, but why should I pay for transit,
not use it, and make my life more complex, as you point out?
Bob
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>From: Mike Leber[SMTP:mleber@he.net]
>Sent: Friday, May 02, 1997 6:17 PM
>To: Bownes, Robert M. (EXCH)
>Cc: 'James Saker'; 'nanog@merit.edu'
>Subject: RE: UUNET settlement - A call to arms?
>
>
>On Fri, 2 May 1997, Bownes, Robert M. (EXCH) wrote:
>> What I would like to do is to connect to, for example, Sprint *just to
>> get to folks who
>> buy from Sprint*, not to transit through them to get to a NAP someplace.
>
>You can already do this.
>
>Simply buy a T1 from Sprint and filter out all of the non Sprint routes.
>Where you might have normally purchased 10 Mbps transit service, you can
>now use just a T1 with the appropriate filters. It will become a pain to
>load balance and capacity plan all of those little pipes (increased
>expense and complexity), but hey, if you don't want to or can't use an
>exchange point this is an alternative.
>
>But I digress... ;)
>
>Mike.
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