Re: Network collapses

["Alex P. Rudnev" <alex () Relcom EU net>]

Sorry. There is a difference. If some company fail out of the funds, it 
should be selled to someone who can cover this loss of funds. For 
example, BIGO.net should buy the values of the hypo.net. It buy the 
links, the fibers, the buildings. But should it buy the address space? 
Who can answer it?

But I can't buy ISP withouth local registry, domain names, etc etc... And 
I am not sure if any attorney in the world understand what's is this - 
domain names, address space, local registry AS numbers. May be it's 90% 
of hypo.net cost? Who can ever estimate it. And who can allow or disallow 
it's sale?


On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Jon Lewis wrote:

> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 01:17:53 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Jon Lewis <jlewis () inorganic5 fdt net>
> To: Michael Dillon <michael () memra com>
> Cc: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: Network collapses
>
> On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Michael Dillon wrote:
>
> > > If a large network with large amounts of nonportable space, like UUNET,
> > > were to fail entirely (financially, or system-wide, e.g.), what would
> > > happen to the address space that that network had assigned to its
> > > customers?
> >
> > Nothing. First the courts would appoint someone to run the company on
> > behalf of the creditors. Then someone would buy the assets and customers
> > for 10 cents on the dollar. Operational impact will be minimal to
>
> But...what would happen if some hypothetical national or international
> backbone provider (call it hypo.net) were to litterally run out of funds.
> If they fall far enough behind that the utility companies kill power to
> all their POPs, you could see a few days of loss of service before some
> other backbone buys the pieces and gets things back online.  Sure, this
> would require monumental mismanagement, and is probably about as likely as
> natural disasters simultaneously destroying all a backbones POPs.
>
> BTW....while poking around just a bit at UUNet's web site, I found this:
>
>   UUNET Technologies, headquartered in Fairfax, VA in the United States,
>   was founded in May 1987. Now a WorldCom, Inc. subsidiary (NASDAQ: WCOM),
>   UUNET is recognized as the largest Internet Service Provider in the
>   world. 
>  
> Weren't they majorly downplaying the size of UUNet and MCI when the two
> were going to be owned by Worldcomm??
>
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