UUNET Pulling Peering Agreements & replacing them with charging under non-disclosure?

Fri May 2 10:43:08 UTC 1997

> 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