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[Steve Deering <deering@parc.xerox.com>]

> NHRP arranges for router hops to be avoided by the edge devices
> bypassing the routers...

NHRP looks, to me, like a conspiracy by the telecommunications companies to
cause local communication to a nearby router to be turned into long-distance
calls on which they can charge their usual, exorbitant retail prices to
end-users.  They know if they don't do that, they'll be relegated to the
less profitable role of being bandwidth wholesalers, selling PVCs to ISPs.
NHRP is clearly in the phone companies' interest, but is it in the Internet
users' interest?

Steve