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Re: UUNET settlement - A call to arms?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew James Gering)
Fri May 2 23:55:38 1997

From: "Matthew James Gering" <mgering@ricochet.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 20:49:39 -0700


I agree that NSP's should separate cost of Peering from cost of Transit.

On the other hand, you are also paying for the size of the Pipe. Only
peering is going to reduce the size requirement, and reduce your cost.

	Matt

> 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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