[49507] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sprint peering policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nigel Titley)
Tue Jul 2 12:05:24 2002
From: Nigel Titley <nigel@titley.com>
To: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20020701175316.5F96F28EDE@as.vix.com>
Date: 02 Jul 2002 17:02:42 +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 17:53, Paul Vixie wrote:
>
> > What is the connection between unregulated peering and the financial
> > difficulties we have seen?
> >
> > The problems have been caused by:
> >
> > - Bad business models
> > - Greed
> > - Corporate officers who have shirked their fudiciary responsibilities to
> > the stockholders
> >
> > If you can somehow tie peering into this, please be my guest, but it would
> > be a bit of a stretch.
>
> you've asked and answered your own question, though. remember, wcom tried
> to buy sprint and it was only the EU's antitrust folks who stopped them.
And I like to think that my demonstration of the insane paths that
packets travelled to Wcom, which I made to the anti-trust tribunal at
the time, helped to get that purchase stopped.
