[49343] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sprint peering policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (william@elan.net)
Sat Jun 29 03:21:29 2002
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 00:04:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: <william@elan.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <g37kkihhou.fsf@as.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> when this situation has existed in other industries, gov't intervention
> has always resulted. even when the scope is international. i've not
> been able to puzzle out the reason why the world's gov'ts have not
> stepped in with some basic interconnection requirements for IP carriers.
Give example of other industry where such goverment intervention happened
and has helped that industry? And what goverment exactly are we talking
about - US Goverment? France Goverment? China Goverment? This is internet
- its rules should not be based purely on decision of one single goverment.
Perhaps an idea would be to write an advisery RFC on establishment of
peering relationships by ISPs. While advisery does not mean everyone will
follow, it'll allow groups within a company that are interested in more
peering (network engineers..) to backup their words by an established
internet standard.
--
William Leibzon
Elan Communications Inc.
