concern over public peering points [WAS: Peering point speed publicly available?]

Sat Jul 3 16:31:05 UTC 2004

Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Randy Bush wrote:
> 
> 
>>no.  in the first case, you're just hiding the incremental costs.
>>eventually, some bean counter is gonna want to recover them, and
>>then folk get quite unhappy.
> 
> 
> What costs are you referring to? You basically need a few hours time per 
> month from engineers and billing department. This for an exchange that has 
> 20 ISPs connected to it. The amount of traffic isn't really a factor, but 
> the one I know of and am part of running carries multi-gigabit.

Does the person that sweeps the floor do so for free?  And supply the
broom?

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