[Air-l] Re: Data

elijah wright elw at stderr.org
Tue May 25 19:00:12 PDT 2004


> Ok, not to jump in with an irrelevant conversation, but when I talked to
> a former CIO of a big university, he pointed out that the strength of
> internet-2 was in peering, that the biggest uni's who join the I2
> network will be factoring in a peering factor when their universities
> are charged for internet access.

regular old ISPs do exactly the same thing - to some extent, the
university is just another ISP which can peer with whatever will lower its
total costs for bandwidth and data line leases.


elijah

> So hypothetical only, charges would disappear and couldn't be tracked,
> although traffic would of course not disappear (isn't that the truth).
>
> Denise





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