According to BBN's version of the story, Exodus is a customer and not a peer. If I had my way I would offer every BBN customer that was not dual homed free connectivity to one of our Data Centers for a year. Unfortunately we are not a traditional access provider in that we offer colocation connectivty rather than circuit connectivity. At any rate, I agree that the ultimate decision will be made by the stockholders and BBN customers. It is unfortunate that in the mean time a few unknowing BBN customers will lose connectivity to some of the largest web sites on the Internet. Mark Michael Shields wrote:
The reason it's worked is that connecting network A to network B generally provides value to both, so we've had a multi-decade connectfest. Value of connecting exceeded cost of connecting.
Lately we are seeing shadings between the traditional "customer/peer" dichotomy. Traditionally peers treated each other as true equals because the cost of determining the relative value to A of connecting to B and to B of connecting to A in order to determine who should pay whom, including badwill cost, exceeded the expected payment.
BBN thinks is no longer the case and if you are going to convince them otherwise, you'll have to convince them that it is in *their* best interest to continue free peering with Exodus, not that it is in "the Internet's" best interest.
As Karl says, an effective way to do that is to cancel your BBN contract. In fact this is almost certainly the only effective way to convince them. If you're not a BBN customer there is no reason they should listen to you. -- Shields, CrossLink.
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