Maybe a peering agreement that has settlements based on the number of NAP's you peer at? Peering at _no_ NAP's means paying full price with a decreasing scale down to nothing if you peer at 5 NAP's (or whatever the current hurdle is set at). Ed On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Jon Zeeff wrote:
Others have said this, but it really does seem like there needs to be pricing that allows for varying degrees of peering. It's a big jump from "you pay for every byte" to "you pay us nothing". There are providers who should fall between these extremes.
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