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Er, SPRINT's been doing this forever. Owen > Err, you are missing something. Obviously GTE knows this, that is the > point of killing the peering. The question is, is the method the GTE is > using to determine who should pay for transit accurate? Turn it around; > why shouldn't BBN pay Exodus to terminate the traffic for them? > > It just strikes me as odd that BBN is trying to [essentially] apply a > telecom-accepted/FCC-tarrifed method of termination payments to IP > packets. > > In effect, what BBN is doing is revolutionary. However, in my opinion, it > is sad to see essentially one of the founders of the Internet to bend the > Internet over and break out the Vaseline. However, that is just my > opinion. > > I wonder what Sprint and MCI's position is on this... Will we see them > doing that same? > > > > > As for any comments made by GTE/BBN regarding uneven traffic flow, I would > > sure as hell hope that is the case. Surely an HTTP 'GET' request consumes > > less bandwidth than the content spewed back. Then again, GTE/BBN may be > > too caught up to realize this, as they could very well be laughing their > > asses off all the way to the bank. > > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > Atheism is a non-prophet organization. > I route, therefore I am. > Alex Rubenstein, [email protected], KC2BUO, ISP/C Charter Member > Father of the Network and Head Bottle-Washer > Net Access Corporation, 9 Mt. Pleasant Tpk., Denville, NJ 07834 > Don't choose a spineless ISP! We have more backbone! http://www.nac.net > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > > > >
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