[2754] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MFS buys UUNET.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@isi.edu)
Tue Apr 30 16:56:06 1996
From: bmanning@isi.edu
To: matthew@scruz.net (Matthew Kaufman)
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 13:45:08 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: rmg@internex.net, nanog@merit.edu, matthew@nic.scruz.net
In-Reply-To: <199604301951.MAA25171@scruz.net> from "Matthew Kaufman" at Apr 30, 96 12:51:47 pm
>
> Original message <199604301656.JAA02668@victory.InterNex.Net>
> From: rmg@internex.net (Rob Gutierrez)
> Date: Apr 30, 9:56
> Subject: MFS buys UUNET.
> >
> > As somebody mentioned today, an AP wire story came across this morning
> > that MFS is _buying_ UUNET for $2 billion....
>
> Many months ago, it was explained to me in great detail why Sprint, et. al.,
> liked peering at MFS exchange points (because MFS is a neutral party, ie.
> not an NSP) and didn't like hearing about exchange points run by NSPs or ISPs
> (as some of the smaller regional points are).
>
> Any comment from the larger NSPs about what this does to that theory?
>
> -matthew kaufman
> matthew@scruz.net
One would have to wonder about Sprints position in light of its
roles as ISP (SprintLink, GlobalOne) a Telco with an NSF award
for Internet Services (ICM) and as an NSF NAP awardee (SprintNAP).
If they can do it w/o conflict of interest, then I'm sure that
uuMFSMnet can do the same.
--
--bill
