[9168] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Coincidence...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Wed May 7 16:26:08 1997
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 13:09:18 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: edfang@visi.net, rs@bifrost.seastrom.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 5 May 1997, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
:
:When Sprint initially enacted peering requirements, I asked several
:UUnet employees whether they were planning to do the same. The answer
:was without exception that UUnet pursues peering with all technically
:qualified providers at all exchange points, because that results in
:the best connectivity for UUnet customers.
Edward Fang <edfang@visi.net> wrote:
>
>Actually I think this was once one of their boasting points.
Boasting is fine until economic realities start to affect your
bottom line. I always held to the opinion that stratification of
Internet is inevitable.
Neither it is a bad phenomenon per se -- it reflect shifing of Internet
being add-on service to being a core business of facilities based
telecom companies. The ultimate win will be a network which is a lot
more useful, with solid and sustainable business model.
--vadim
