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### On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:56:26 -0700, "Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]> ### casually decided to expound upon Majdi Abbas <[email protected]> the ### following thoughts about "Re: RADB Fees ": KO> > From: Majdi Abbas <[email protected]> KO> > Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:20:55 -0400 (EDT) KO> > Sender: [email protected] KO> > KO> > Heads up: KO> > KO> > https://www.merit.edu/radb/fee.html KO> KO> Yes, but before getting excited, please read the full text including KO> the part about participants at the MAEs, PAIX, AADS, and PacBell being KO> exempt. #include <https://www.merit.edu/radb/fee.html> IMPORTANT: The registration fee for Internet providers peering with Route Server Next Generation machines at the PAIX, Mae-East, Mae-West, AADS and PacBell exchange points is included as part of the RSNG service at these exchanges. Providers at these five exchange points do *NOT* need to submit a $200 payment for any maintainer objectes registered with their autonomous $system number in the RADB. #endinc /* https://www.merit.edu/radb/fee.html */ The above seems a little unclear. I'm assuming the exemption is based on the fact that the exchange point providers are subsidising mntner registration fees for IXP participants as part or through the RSng services they have contracted to Merit. The RSes are then provided as a value-added service of the exchange. That being the case, one would assume that a network provider does not need to actually peer with the RSes in order to be exempt from paying the mntner fee since RS-peering is not mandatory at any of those exchanges... they only have to be a participant of the exchange point. Am I right here? Can someone from Merit comment? -- /*====================[ Jake Khuon <[email protected]> ]======================+ | Network Statistics Engineer, NSM/Net-Eng /~_ |_ () |3 /-\ |_ _ GLOBAL | | VOX: +1(408)543-4828 Fax: +1(408)543-4806 \_| C R O S S I N G CENTER | +===============[ 141 Caspian Court, Sunnyvale, CA 94089 ]===============*/
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