[9115] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: UUNET settlement - A call to arms?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Whipple)
Mon May 5 23:06:14 1997
From: David Whipple <dwhipple@microsoft.com>
To: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ricochet.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 19:52:25 -0700
MSN does not have a "peering agreement" with UUNET. We "BGP peer" with
them simply to allow us to somewhat load balance with our other
carriers.
We do pay for transit, like any other UUNET customer.
Thanks.
David Whipple, Microsoft Internet Engineering.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew James Gering [SMTP:mgering@ricochet.net]
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 1997 8:44 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: UUNET settlement - A call to arms?
>
> MSN does not peer with UUNet, the pay UUNET for transit, and also
> contract
> out the dialup to UUNet -- which is a pretty penney from what I heard.
>
> BTW, what happened to Microsoft's 8% stake of UUNet when UUNet got
> acquired
> by MFS?
>
> Matt
>
> > A big problem here is the gag clause. This means that special deals
> will
> > be cut for the big companies like IBM and MSN and others.
