Re: The early days of peering

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Sat, 02 June 2001, Jerry Scharf wrote:
> It was when multiple connection points came in that traffic differential 
> became an issue. Those requirements were put in when the perceived center of 
> business for the "other ISPs" was local dial connection and bandwidth times 
> distance was used to justify the multiple connections, nationwide networks... 
> Business changed and now the colos are facing the same arguement for being on 
> the opposite side of the spectrum.

In "the early days" UUNET was a net exporter of traffic due to its
original business the UUCP/USENET hub and hosting FTP.UU.NET.  With
USENET, one message went into UUNET, and they broadcast thousands of
copies to their UUCP/USENET customers.  Likewise, with FTP one copy
of X11 was uploaded to ftp.uu.net and thousands of copies were downloaded.