Robert bowman wrote: Or at least look into spending a bunch of additional money buying transit services from AGIS or CRL. They both are in the business of servicing ISPs at the IXP level. Why would you buy transit from either AGIS or CRL if you could also buy it from MCI, ANS, Sprint or UUNET? Are you saying that if one of these big players has a moretorium on peering, it also does not do transit? ********************************************************************** The COOK Report on Internet Individ. hard copy $150 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA Small Corp & Gov't $200 (609) 882-2572 phone and fax Corporate $350 Internet: cook@cookreport.com Corporate Site Lic. $650 http://pobox.com/cook/ for new report: "Tracking Internet Infrastructure" ***********************************************************************