There was no attempt to provoke controversy - I'm in the OP in this... there have been many replies that don't relate to my question though... I don't believe I have a lack of understanding neither - we do smaller scale peering today. I was however trying to look for positive and negative reasons for peering that perhaps we didn't take into consideration beyond how we do it today... the only change for our peering will be the element of long hauling the traffic and expanding it into larger scales - that's about it. Basically I have all the answers I'm looking for now - thank you. Paul -----Original Message----- From: Tomas L. Byrnes [mailto:tomb@byrneit.net] Sent: October 30, 2008 10:34 PM To: vijay gill; Paul Stewart Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Peering - Benefits? As with all things, this isn't so cut and dried as everyone makes it seem. The OP was asking for an easy answer to a complex question, which usually shows a lack of understanding of the issues, or is an attempt to provoke controversy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and contains confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender immediately and then destroy this transmission, including all attachments, without copying, distributing or disclosing same. Thank you."