[30727] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Formal study: How many points networks share
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J. Scott Marcus)
Mon Aug 28 20:53:09 2000
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 20:46:14 -0400
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
From: "J. Scott Marcus" <smarcus@genuity.com>
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At 17:32 08/28/2000 -0700, Sean Donelan wrote:
>After the wave of mergers, attempted mergers, unmergers, and all the related
>investigations by the EU and DOJ; I think most of the providers know how
>to give each other notice by now :-) ....
Unfortunately, Sean, your conclusion may not follow. Responding to
compulsory legal process is significantly easier than providing equivalent
information on a mutual, voluntary basis. And voluntarism won't
necessarily produce a complete set of responses from all major providers.
