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@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@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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