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According to BBN's version of the story, Exodus is a customer and not a peer. If I had my way I would offer every BBN customer that was not dual homed free connectivity to one of our Data Centers for a year. Unfortunately we are not a traditional access provider in that we offer colocation connectivty rather than circuit connectivity. At any rate, I agree that the ultimate decision will be made by the stockholders and BBN customers. It is unfortunate that in the mean time a few unknowing BBN customers will lose connectivity to some of the largest web sites on the Internet. Mark Michael Shields wrote: > The reason it's worked is that connecting network A to network B > generally provides value to both, so we've had a multi-decade > connectfest. Value of connecting exceeded cost of connecting. > > Lately we are seeing shadings between the traditional "customer/peer" > dichotomy. Traditionally peers treated each other as true equals > because the cost of determining the relative value to A of connecting > to B and to B of connecting to A in order to determine who should pay > whom, including badwill cost, exceeded the expected payment. > > BBN thinks is no longer the case and if you are going to convince them > otherwise, you'll have to convince them that it is in *their* best > interest to continue free peering with Exodus, not that it is in > "the Internet's" best interest. > > As Karl says, an effective way to do that is to cancel your BBN > contract. In fact this is almost certainly the only effective way to > convince them. If you're not a BBN customer there is no reason they > should listen to you. > -- > Shields, CrossLink. -- *************************************************************************** Mark Tripod - Senior Network Architect - Exodus Communications http://www.exodus.net - (888) 2-EXODUS - [email protected] ASN 3967 - NASDAQ (EXDS) - Direct: (408) 346-2389
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