Re: a little thought on exchanging traffic

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry () piermont com>]

Dean Anderson writes:
> At 7:18 AM -0400 5/20/98, Sean Donelan wrote:
> > The fundamental problem is there are no magic pixie dust in this business.
> > Sure, some people like to put out press releases saying how they've solved
> > all the worlds problems using the Magic Frambulator.  But what they've usual
ly
> > done is ignored half the problem.
>
> Ohmygod! We're out of magic pixie dust!?!  The Internet will collapse in 30
> minutes!!!  How could the Internic let this happen?
>
> I'd like to propose an RFC for conserving pixie dust. Maybe a non-profit
> arm of the Internic to allocate magic pixie dust on a fair and equal
> basis...

The pixie dust is held exclusively by the IETF's Security Area
Directorate, and Jeff Schiller distributes it when circumstances
require it.

.pm