BBN Peering issues

Sun Aug 16 20:25:31 UTC 1998

Please note that,  by identifying "what is", I'm not equating it with
"what should be."   

And don't knock the idea of promoting the janitor to NOC director. At
least the likelihood of the OpenView workstation going down due to
spilled Mountain Dew or leftover pizza crumbs would be reduced--which is
more benefit than you would get, say, if the typical MBA were promoted
to the same position...

;-)

(speaking for myself, not for my employer)
Bill Goldstein
Senior Internet Specialist
AT&T
wgoldstein at att.com
TEL:(412)642-7288

   ----------
   From:       linneweh
   Sent:       Sunday, August 16, 1998 3:51 PM
   To:         Goldstein, William
   Cc:         linneweh; mark; shields; nanog
   Subject:    Re: BBN Peering issues

   Well that's all fine and dandy. however the internet has worked for
   20 years
   that
   I have been asssociated with it, on the working principal that no one
   hassled or
   encumbered peering charges and there were no board rooms or
   stockholders
   and that is why it worked, because people knew what they were doing.

   The admins and network engineers that do this daily for a living or
   scientific
   researcher that develope codes and methods to do it better made this
   happen
   and certainly not the latter and from my view it WORKED.

   Adding Joe Blow to the picture is like elevating A Janitor to
   Director of
   Network
   Services and turning him/her loose in the NOC.

   Goldstein_William at bns.att.com wrote:

   > Thanks for the reality check.  Whether the rest of us like it or
   not,
   > you're right.
   >
   > Bill Goldstein
   > Senior Internet Specialist
   > AT&T
   > wgoldstein at att.com
   > TEL:(412)642-7288
   >
   >    ----------
   >    From:       shields
   >    Sent:       Sunday, August 16, 1998 3:59 AM
   >    To:         mark
   >    Cc:         shields; nanog
   >    Subject:    Re: BBN Peering issues
   >
   >    > 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.
   >    <<File: Re_ BBN Peering issues.TXT>>
   >
   >
   >

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