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

Sat May 3 02:27:17 UTC 1997

Well said!

Gee, you mean that this *is* really a business??

Best regards,

David Van Allen - You Tools Corporation / FASTNET(tm)
dave at fast.net (610) 289-1100  http://www.fast.net
FASTNET - PA/NJ/DE Internet Solutions

>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Stephen Balbach [SMTP:stephen at clark.net]
>Sent:	Friday, May 02, 1997 6:43 AM
>To:	Gordon Cook
>Cc:	nanog at merit.edu; inet-access at earth.com; dave at oldcolo.com
>Subject:	Re: UUNET Pulling Peering Agreements & replacing them with charging
>under non-disclosure?
>
>
>> 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
>