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>>