UUNET settlement - A call to arms?

Fri May 2 22:31:58 UTC 1997

But I am still paying Sprint for transit, something I am philosophically
opposed to. Yes, the traffic is less, but why should I pay for transit,
not use it, and make my life more complex, as you point out?

Bob

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>From: 	Mike Leber[SMTP:mleber at he.net]
>Sent: 	Friday, May 02, 1997 6:17 PM
>To: 	Bownes, Robert M. (EXCH)
>Cc: 	'James Saker'; 'nanog at merit.edu'
>Subject: 	RE: UUNET settlement - A call to arms?
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>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.
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>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.
>
>But I digress...  ;)
>
>Mike.
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