BBN Peering issues

Sun Aug 16 07:59:21 UTC 1998

> fundamentally important that these ideals be extended to the future of
> the Internet, if it is to have a future. No company should have the
> right to force another to pay for connectivity simply because the latter
> has not been around since the beginning or they are not a telco.

BBN is answerable to their customers and shareholders and not to your
or my ideals of how the Internet should work.
-- 
Shields, CrossLink.