On Sat, Aug 15, 1998 at 09:49:06PM +0000, Michael Shields wrote:
In article <Pine.BSF.3.96.980815012720.27167B-100000@workhorse.iMach.com>, "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@iMach.com> wrote:
After all, it's the BBN customers REQUESTING the data from exodus, not the other way around.
This argument goes around and around every time. Unless you have a customer relationship with Exodus or BBN there is no point in arguing about what should happen with this particular case, and there is no point at all in arguing about what is the morally correct thing for the general case. The only way to determine the value of connecting network A to network B, in either sign or magnitude, is for A and B to negotiate a price, which may even be zero. And that's what's happening here, albeit in a unusually painful and visible way.
If you have an opinion and are a customer of BBN or Exodus, tell them your opinion. Otherwise there is no need to care. -- Shields, CrossLink.
Actually, if you're a BBN customer, I strongly recommend that you tell them by taking your contract, placing it in the paper shredder, and sending them the chips it emits. Then buy connectivity from someone who has a corporate view that when you pay someone for transit, you are buying transit to all of the net they can reach and not just those who they can pry yet more money from (especially considering that you already paid them for that service!) -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost