Peering versus Transit

Mon Sep 30 22:14:53 UTC 1996

> From: Vadim Antonov <avg at quake.net>
> Bill Woodcock <woody at zocalo.net> wrote:
> 
> >    WRT the former, I simply cannot fathom, and no one other than Sean has
> >    yet presented an argument explaining why it's malicious to deliver a
> >    packet to its addressee's ISP.
> 
> You should always add "without consent of the said ISP".
> 
> It is no different from dumping a pile of bricks at somebody's property.

Why is it any different than the big ISP's customers dumping
packets on small ISP's web server?

Sanjay.