AGIS/DIGEX

Wed Oct 30 06:41:58 UTC 1996

I agree completely with everything you stated.

Now I promise to all those visually impaired, I will take this offline.

Rob
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> 
> In my opinion you are all overlooking one issue here.  Our customers are the 
> reason we exist and providing global connectivity to customers is important.
> Happy customers are important.   If anyone forced you to peer with us,
> I would have to say it was your customer who called you up and requested
> that his company be able to access our network.  The fellow I talked to
> at Exodus felt the way I do and believed that if one of his customers
> needed something that he was going to do his best to make it happen.  
> Again, not to harp on this particular situation, I just want to express that
> many of these providers with the really strict peering policies have
> some very unhappy customers (I have talked to quite a few of them). They
> are unhappy because they can't get to all the destinations they need to.  I 
> think in the end the customers will vote by connecting elsewhere. 
> 
> Thanks!
> ---Cathy
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>     From: Robert Bowman <rob at elite.exodus.net>
>     Subject: Re: AGIS/DIGEX
>     The point was not who did what to whom.  The point was bending policies due
>     to certain circumstances and forced peering due to these.
>     I do recall you having transit via geonet for a while however on the network in
>     question.  Same issue, on a much smaller scale, than AGIS/Digex situation.
>     I agree with taking this offline, and discussing the "issue" rather than the
>     particular situation between our networks.
>     
>     rob
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>     > 
>     >     From: Robert Bowman <rob at elite.exodus.net>
>     >     Subject: Re: AGIS/DIGEX
>     >     This is all very interesting information.  It seems at-home recently did
>     >     the same thing with us, as they stopped all transit and were not on CIX,
>     >     basically forcing us to peer with them.  Is this the route to get peering
>     >     with the big players that will now evolve?  Forced peering due to 
>     >     unreachability?
>     > 
>     > We did no such thing.  We never had connectivity to you
>     > and one of your customers called us and requested that we fix it so
>     > that they could work with our content group.  If you would like to
>     > discuss this further please feel free to contact me.   
>     > 
>     > Thanks
>     > ---Cathy
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