MAE NY?

Randy Bush rbush at bainbridge.verio.net
Wed Oct 7 13:47:45 UTC 1998


> I should certainly agree.  But, having been through this before, I know I
> have to deal with silly policies which don't apply to all situations.  My
> traffic is entirely NE regional right now.

i very much doubt this.  your traffic is world-wide.  the people who pay you
just happen to be only in the US NE.  and this mis-conception is the basis
of your problem.

> I think I'm being a hell of a sport by delivering it down to say MAE East
> and AADS or something like that.  When I have that established, and
> someone then comes back and tells me that they won't peer just because I
> don't have a West coast presence, I think that's rediculous.

the counter-argument would go something like this

  so, you think it is fine for me to pay to carry your traffic across
  the country.

  then parallel logic says that we all should also think it fine if you
  pay to carry our traffic across the country.  please install a cross-
  country link and peer on both coasts.

this is called hot potato, and is the general practice.  check the meaning
of 'peer' in the dictionary.

i suspect that the airlines do not consider you 'a heck of a sport' because
you drove to the airport, and are 'ridiculous' enough to want to charge you
for a plane ticket to san francisco.

randy



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