I do not believe your CEO is mistaken. I also do not believe you have missed an announcement. But I do believe (with good cause and information) that the rumor of impending peering charging policies is real and imminent. Due to some non-disclosure issues I can say no more. Take your CEO's advice and follow up on it. des ---------- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu on behalf of Dave Curado Sent: Saturday, January 25, 1997 10:17 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: peering charges? Curious thing, the CEO of my company called me the other day and was worried about who we were peering with. It seems someone put a bug in his ear that the larger providers were about to start charging some of the smaller providers for bilateral peering. I haven't heard anything about that at all... so either a) the ceo is mistaken b) I've missed some important annoucement recently either is possible. Has anyone else heard anything about this? Thanks, davec