On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Joe Abley wrote:

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On 15 Jun 2004, at 08:22, Drew Broadley wrote:

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The end is nigh.

The doomsaying is all very dramatic, but where's the reasoning?

If it suddenly costs money to talk to networks which are customers of TCL, it surely makes *more* sense to peer with them directly, not less.

Indeed. Peering by US content providers is one of the big changes identified in http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0405/pdf/norton.pdf . Perhaps sadly, one of the possible futures for the US identified by the author in answer to questions about his presentation at the most recent NANOG was the New Zealand model, in which charges aren't made for national traffic. - Donald Neal Donald Neal | Bubble and squeak Technical Specialist | - Boiled mouse. Operations Engineering | [Martin Neal] Integration & Services Division +----------------------- Alcatel NZ Ltd - Telecom's network operations manager ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "This communication, including any attachments, is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not read it - please contact me immediately, destroy it, and do not copy or use any part of this communication or disclose anything about it. Thank you. Please note that this communication does not designate an information system for the purposes of the Electronic Transactions Act 2002." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------