[9014] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: UUNET Pulling Peering Agreements & replacing them with charging under non-disclosure?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Van Allen)
Fri May 2 22:29:30 1997
From: Dave Van Allen <dave@fast.net>
To: "'Stephen Balbach'" <stephen@clark.net>, "'Gordon Cook'" <cook@netaxs.com>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>,
"'inet-access@earth.com'"
<inet-access@earth.com>,
"'dave@oldcolo.com'" <dave@oldcolo.com>
Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 22:27:17 -0400
Well said!
Gee, you mean that this *is* really a business??
Best regards,
David Van Allen - You Tools Corporation / FASTNET(tm)
dave@fast.net (610) 289-1100 http://www.fast.net
FASTNET - PA/NJ/DE Internet Solutions
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stephen Balbach [SMTP:stephen@clark.net]
>Sent: Friday, May 02, 1997 6:43 AM
>To: Gordon Cook
>Cc: nanog@merit.edu; inet-access@earth.com; dave@oldcolo.com
>Subject: Re: UUNET Pulling Peering Agreements & replacing them with charging
>under non-disclosure?
>
>
>> First it was AGIS (but who cares about AGIS?). Now UUNET. Tomorrow who?
>> MCI? As UUNET and others of the big five move to consolidate their
>> markets.......... let UUNET put the smaller national backbones against the
>> wall and whom do the rest of ISP's have to rely on? Those ISPs who did
>> not get hit in UUNET's first round of cuts. Will you get it in the neck in
>> the second or the third round?
>
>The only thing UUNET is cutting is Internet trees, and there are some who
>are protesting by hugging them. Clear out the chaff for next seasons
>crops.
>
>Buying connectivity from an ISP who peers with UUNET, or buying direct
>from UUNET, is a lot cheaper then building a national DS-3/OC-3 backbone
>and trying to be default free - this is not about UUNET cuting throats,
>it's about large and small ISP's examining thier business model.
>
>
>.stb
>
