[4786] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Best way to deal with bad advertisements?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Galbavy)
Sun Sep 29 04:15:01 1996
From: Peter Galbavy <peter@wonderland.org>
To: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM (Sean Donelan)
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 09:09:18 +0100 (BST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <960928225237.1fcdb@SDG.DRA.COM> from "Sean Donelan" at Sep 28, 96 10:52:37 pm
> Besides, most of the major providers previously based the bulk of
> their peering 'requirements' on how many DS3s you had. Now most
> 'major' providers seem to have gone cold turkey. MCI, Sprint, and
> UUNET told me they won't peer with *anyone* new.
And from my "media learnt" view of US things, I can't wait for the first
anti-trust suite :-)
But seriously, lets face it, DS3's are "cheap" and these people
want more customes no freeloaders. Like us, who are paying $5M+ a
year for a trans-atlantic DS3 and Sprint are very insistant that
we build a US network based on DS3s to peer with them, even with
the obvious fact that we have no US customers and have already paid
for a connection which in reality should be matched by the large
US carriers, rather than taking the piss once you have this
investment. I only mention Sprint, since the others you mention
are a tad more sensible, but still slow, while Sprint are in a
glacier.
Regards,
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