Altert: Pardon my ignorance on this issue, but I read C&W's receint peering agreement and it seems they are simply trying to define what is a true "peer". My question is, where is the traditional line that defines who should be a "peer" and who should be a customer and shouldn't that be open to re-evaluation as the network evolves. Is it that C&W has "rigged" their peering agreement with specifics that would de-peer legitimate peers or are they just trying to protect themselves from an evolutinary change. Chuck On Mon, 7 May 2001, Albert Meyer wrote:
Didn't UUNet try this back in 96? A quick search of Boardwatch failed to find the article, but ISTR that John Sidgemore eventually slunk back to the playground and agreed to play nice. If UUNet couldn't pull it off back then, I doubt that CW can now. Things have changed a lot in 5 years, but I would suspect that "Stealing the Internet" would now be harder rather than easier.
At 01:31 PM 5/6/01 -0500, Joseph T. Klein wrote:
It seems to be worthy of note that AGIS and PSI tried to use the "pay me don't peer" card before they deteriorated.
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