[38434] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: C&W Peering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Welty)
Mon Jun 4 21:03:31 2001
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Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 21:03:15 -0400
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>
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At 08:51 PM 6/4/2001 -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote:
>I know almost nothing about bankruptcy, so I would love for someone
>who does to comment. Put simply, if a company can't pay its
>creditors and suppliers do they have any chance of entering into
>a new purchase agreement? I know that I personally wouldn't offer
>them Net-30 payment terms right now.
actually, this is an interesting point. normally in bankruptcy,
vendors for the bankrupt outfit are not permitted to terminate
services.
now a true peering agreement isn't a vendor/customer relationship,
but it is interesting to consider how a bankruptcy court might
see it. C&W has done some level of damage (how much is uncertain)
to a company in bankruptcy, and there was probably some written
agreement with the force of a contract between the two.
i bet this ends up in court more or less immediately.
richard
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