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Re: Peering Agreement Difficulties
From: Sean Doran <smd () cesium clock org>
Date: 14 Feb 1997 17:25:10 -0500
Rolf Medal <rolf () ie-corp net> writes:
Internet express has experienced great difficulty in establishing peering agreements with MCI, Sprint & PPN. If you have also experienced problems in this regard, we encourage you to inform us ASAP. There currently is a class action suit in progress.
Wah wah wah wah. We can't get the multibillion-dollar corporations to treat us as business equals, such that we can get unpaid-for customer connectivity. Wah wah wah wah. I guess it's fortunate that in the land of the U.S.A., the people who aren't intelligent enough to do the very simple things necessary to make themselves MORE effective competitors for Internet services revenue than the multibillion-dollar corporations can vent their rage in frivolous class-action lawsuits. The funny thing is that existence proof of this can be found among several of the formerly small-fry providers which are now among the big N "tier one" providers. The funnier thing is that the same thing that made a couple of them competitive with ANS CO+RE's allegedly unfair marketplace tactics trivially could be successfully repeated. It'll be amusing to see if these people who are ill-equipped to make their fortunes without direct subsidy by their bigger competitors are successful in court, particularly against MCI, which has spent the last decade and change suing itself into existence, and is no stranger to aggressive, expensive, time-consuming litigation. (Frankly, I wonder if the lawsuit will end before everyone involve has died of old-age, or technology has advanced enough to make the whole lawsuit completely irrelevant.) Meanwhile, kindly direct this to com-priv. It has NO relevance whatsoever to NANOG, even in the new NANOG which is all noise and no signal. Sean. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- Peering Agreement Difficulties Rolf Medal (Feb 14)
- Re: Peering Agreement Difficulties Avi Freedman (Feb 14)
- Re: Peering Agreement Difficulties Dirk Harms-Merbitz (Feb 14)
- Re: Peering Agreement Difficulties Barry Shein (Feb 14)
- Re: Peering Agreement Difficulties Dima Volodin (Feb 14)
- Re: Peering Agreement Difficulties Alex P. Rudnev (Feb 15)
- Re: Peering Agreement Difficulties Dirk Harms-Merbitz (Feb 14)
- Re: Peering Agreement Difficulties Sean Doran (Feb 14)
- Re: Peering Agreement Difficulties Randy Bush (Feb 14)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Peering Agreement Difficulties Eric D. Madison (Feb 14)
- Re: Peering Agreement Difficulties Avi Freedman (Feb 14)