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Re: Verio Peering Question

  • From: Iljitsch van Beijnum
  • Date: Tue Oct 02 17:24:02 2001 
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Alex Bligh wrote:

> There is much evidence
> to suggest the free market is good at sorting things like this out.
> Currently, however, we have misattribution of costs.

> SMD suggested this a long time ago, for routes in general (i.e. not
> just long ones). He's right (at least if measured over a long
> enough time window :-p )

Yes, this could be interesting. I announce one route to UUNET, but they
send me over 800 (not counting transit). So that should generate some
income for me...

I don't think it would be very hard to identify who should pay, but it
might be difficult to decide who should receive the money.