[108930] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: routing around Sprint's depeering damage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rod Beck)
Sun Nov 2 09:24:13 2008
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 14:24:02 -0000
From: "Rod Beck" <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com>
To: "Patrick Giagnocavo" <patrick@zill.net>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
I'll make one comment before 'Alex the Hammer' closes this discussion =
for straying into politics.=20
Clearly regulating the incumbents to unbundle local loops has worked =
very well in some European countries (France and possibly others). =
Clearly US financial deregulation has cost the world dearly.=20
So regulation is the appropriate response in some cases (I hope that is =
clear given the world financial system almost went under a few weeks =
ago).
However, it is not clear what a well crafted peering regulation would do =
that is different than what the market has achieved already.=20
Sensible and hence pragmatic government mandated peering would require =
companies having equal bilateral traffic flows to peer or buy transit =
from each other. That would not necessarily preclude the current peering =
dispute.=20
Forcing companies to peer when it is not in their interest is unlikely =
to be supported by the courts in any country, even the French and German =
courts. =20
Sooner or later these two companies in conflict will either return to =
peering or one of them will buy transit to reach the other.=20
It is a short term issue that probably doesn't merit government =
intervention=20
Regards,
Roderick S. Beck
Director of European Sales
Hibernia Atlantic
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http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com
Wireless: 1-212-444-8829.=20
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``Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.'' =
Albert Einstein.=20
