peering charges?

Mon Jan 27 06:34:11 UTC 1997

I do not believe your CEO is mistaken. I also do not believe you have missed 
an announcement. But I do believe (with good cause and information) that the 
rumor of impending peering charging policies is real and imminent.  Due to 
some non-disclosure issues I can say no more.  Take your CEO's advice and 
follow up on it. des

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From:  owner-nanog at merit.edu on behalf of Dave Curado
Sent:  Saturday, January 25, 1997 10:17 PM
To:  nanog at merit.edu
Subject:  peering charges?

Curious thing, the CEO of my company called me the other
day and was worried about who we were peering with.
It seems someone put a bug in his ear that the larger 
providers were about to start charging some of the smaller
providers for bilateral peering.  

I haven't heard anything about that at all... so either
a) the ceo is mistaken
b) I've missed some important annoucement recently

either is possible.

Has anyone else heard anything about this?

Thanks,
davec