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Re: Verio Peering Question


From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 23:22:10 +0200 (CEST)


On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Alex Bligh wrote:

There is much evidence
to suggest the free market is good at sorting things like this out.
Currently, however, we have misattribution of costs.

SMD suggested this a long time ago, for routes in general (i.e. not
just long ones). He's right (at least if measured over a long
enough time window :-p )

Yes, this could be interesting. I announce one route to UUNET, but they
send me over 800 (not counting transit). So that should generate some
income for me...

I don't think it would be very hard to identify who should pay, but it
might be difficult to decide who should receive the money.


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