Please do not say that in public unless you want to hasten the day when peering relationships are in the hands of sales persons and/or corporate bean counters and treated like commodities. (not to say that isn't already the case in certain places)

-----Original Message----- From: Sean Donelan [mailto:sean@donelan.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 2:30 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Trusting BGP sessions

Peering is a business decision. It is not an engineering decision nor a trust event.