[108884] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sprint / Cogent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Fri Oct 31 11:22:14 2008
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:21:51 -0400
From: "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: "Alex Rubenstein" <alex@corp.nac.net>
In-Reply-To: <FF5E2BD4C989EB41B60A6DC6CA8D29520C5CA087FF@EXCHMBX.hq.nac.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Alex Rubenstein <alex@corp.nac.net> wrote:
> Why do I say stupid?
>
> Because, if companies like Sprint continue to do things like what Sprint is doing, this will
> certainly lead to being noticed by legislators, and the next thing we know we will have federally
> regulated peering or backbone network operating. I can see it now, the Bureau of Peering will be
> part of the Federal Networking Committee.
>
This is different than the 3yr hold on peering changes imposed on
UUNET/MCI when they merged with Verizon (were borged by verizon) or
the same hold imposed on ATT when the SBC/ATT merger went down?
-chris
