RE: UUNET settlement - A call to arms?

["Bownes, Robert M. (EXCH)" <RMBOWNES () intermedia com>]

But I am still paying Sprint for transit, something I am philosophically
opposed to. Yes, the traffic is less, but why should I pay for transit,
not use it, and make my life more complex, as you point out?

Bob

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> From:  Mike Leber[SMTP:mleber () he net]
> Sent:  Friday, May 02, 1997 6:17 PM
> To:    Bownes, Robert M. (EXCH)
> Cc:    'James Saker'; 'nanog () merit edu'
> Subject:       RE: UUNET settlement - A call to arms?
>
>
> On Fri, 2 May 1997, Bownes, Robert M. (EXCH) wrote:
> > What I would like to do is to connect to, for example, Sprint *just to
> > get to folks who 
> > buy from Sprint*, not to transit through them to get to a NAP someplace.
>
> You can already do this.
>
> Simply buy a T1 from Sprint and filter out all of the non Sprint routes. 
> Where you might have normally purchased 10 Mbps transit service, you can
> now use just a T1 with the appropriate filters.  It will become a pain to
> load balance and capacity plan all of those little pipes (increased
> expense and complexity), but hey, if you don't want to or can't use an
> exchange point this is an alternative.
>
> But I digress...  ;)
>
> Mike.
>
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