[37249] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cable & Wireless "de-peering"?!?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Tue May 8 02:24:00 2001
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@mfnx.net>
Date: 07 May 2001 23:19:27 -0700
In-Reply-To: peter@dataloss.nl's message of "7 May 2001 16:22:23 -0700"
Message-ID: <g3wv7se51s.fsf@redpaul.mfnx.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
peter@dataloss.nl (Peter van Dijk) writes:
> I do still think UUnet is in a downward spiral, just like C&W. Strong
> peering policies are not good for the Internet.
Well, before I returned to PAIX, I was CTO of MFN. MFN had bought Abovenet,
and I learnt to respect strong peering policies. Abovenet's peering policy
was, and as far as I know still is, very "strong". It's strongly _open_,
which means it's different from the purported C&W policy being discussed here
this week. But while different it is still "strong".
I think what you were looking to say above is that "*closed* peering policies
are not good for the Internet." Probably noone will *publically* disagree
with such sentiments. Not on nanog, anyway.