Re: UUNET settlement - A call to arms?

["Jeff Young" <young () mci net>]

set community no-export?

Jeff Young
young () mci net

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> On Fri, 2 May 1997 at 15:17 PDT, Mike Leber <mleber () he net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 May 1997, Bownes, Robert M. (EXCH) wrote:
> > > What I would like to do is to connect to, for example, Sprint *just to
> > > get to folks who 
> > > buy from Sprint*, not to transit through them to get to a NAP someplace.
> >
> > You can already do this.
> >
> > Simply buy a T1 from Sprint and filter out all of the non Sprint routes. 
> > Where you might have normally purchased 10 Mbps transit service, you can
> > now use just a T1 with the appropriate filters.  It will become a pain to
> > load balance and capacity plan all of those little pipes (increased
> > expense and complexity), but hey, if you don't want to or can't use an
> > exchange point this is an alternative.
>
> Uh, no, but thank you for playing.
>
> It's the other direction that is the problem.  How does he advertise
> routes to Sprint so that Sprint customers can reach him but without
> Sprint advertising his routes at exchange points?  That's the other
> half of what he's asking for, and he can't do it unless Sprint sets
> up filters to do it for him.

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