UUNET settlement - A call to arms?

Sat May 3 17:47:57 UTC 1997

> From: "Bownes, Robert M. (EXCH)" <RMBOWNES at intermedia.com>
> 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. Logically, this should be available (and we make
> such arrangements available) at a lower cost than transit. At the extreme
> low end, it is a no-cost relationship at exchange points called peering.

I found this to be a nice recapitulation of what "peering" means.  Each
peer pays the cost for seeing the other, not for carrying traffic to
someone else they can see ("transit").

> How can we combat this? By building better interconnectivity amongst
> ourselves. Local exchanges help to offload traffic that we would
> otherwise hand off to major NSPs. We are actively campaigning to build
> exchanges in any city we can for ISPs to exchange traffic, removing
> it from the NSP backbone.
>
This is admirable.  Is there a place where this effort is coordinated?

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