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
Please note that, by identifying "what is", I'm not equating it with "what should be." And don't knock the idea of promoting the janitor to NOC director. At least the likelihood of the OpenView workstation going down due to spilled Mountain Dew or leftover pizza crumbs would be reduced--which is more benefit than you would get, say, if the typical MBA were promoted to the same position... ;-) (speaking for myself, not for my employer) Bill Goldstein Senior Internet Specialist AT&T wgoldstein@att.com TEL:(412)642-7288 ---------- From: linneweh Sent: Sunday, August 16, 1998 3:51 PM To: Goldstein, William Cc: linneweh; mark; shields; nanog Subject: Re: BBN Peering issues Well that's all fine and dandy. however the internet has worked for 20 years that I have been asssociated with it, on the working principal that no one hassled or encumbered peering charges and there were no board rooms or stockholders and that is why it worked, because people knew what they were doing. The admins and network engineers that do this daily for a living or scientific researcher that develope codes and methods to do it better made this happen and certainly not the latter and from my view it WORKED. Adding Joe Blow to the picture is like elevating A Janitor to Director of Network Services and turning him/her loose in the NOC. Goldstein_William@bns.att.com wrote: the
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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>>
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