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Re: UUNET Pulling Peering Agreements & replacing them with charging

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Lothberg)
Sat May 3 02:08:04 1997

Date: Sat, 3 May 97 4:24:55 MET DST
From: Peter Lothberg <roll@Stupi.SE>
To: "Matthew E. Pearson" <mpearson@games-online.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 02 May 1997 23:54:09 -0400

> UUNet's customers and MSN etc if a company like ConXion no longer had UUNET
> peering?

Look up ''peer'' in a dictionary, in this context it means something
like ''networks of equal size''.

The internet is moving towards a scenario with a handfull global
players that will be ''peers'' everyone else will become a customer.

--Peter

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