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On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 02:41:58PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: > None of this has ANYTHING to do with what the customer has purchased - which > is TRANSIT TO THE ENTIRE INTERNET. Not just the parts that someone else > will pay that same provider to communicate with. CustA - NetA <-> NetB - CustB. Both customer are _buying_ for transit for the whole source-destination path, but are _paying_ only for (in this case) half of it. Customers share the costs, because providing service to each other is considered beneficial. Therefore networks A and B peer if traffic is roughly equal or exchange traffic with settlement fees if not. -- [email protected] fishpool creations ltd http://www.kasvua.org/~toivotuo/ http://www.fishpool.fi/
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