[36233] in North American Network Operators' Group
OUTAGE: network shutdown
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Mar 30 11:37:45 2001
Date: 30 Mar 2001 08:33:12 -0800
Message-ID: <20010330163312.16655.cpmta@c004.sfo.cp.net>
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Disposition: inline
Mime-Version: 1.0
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
As most folks are aware, Northpoint Communications is/has/will shutdown
its DSL network. The shutdown seems to be proceeding at different speeds
in different states. State PUC's don't seem to have a proceedure for
handling customers abandoned by a failing provider.
Originally, I was viewing this as a shutdown of an end network, hard on
the users of that network but not really an Internet service outage. But
AT&T's description of Northpoint as a wholesaler meant the shutdown affected
multiple ISPs. So I'm including northpoint's going out of business in
my tracking of outages because it affected multiple Internet networks.
