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

Sat May 3 03:51:06 UTC 1997

when they clean out all the competing backbones what is to prevent thenm
from doubling and then tripling your charges Dave?

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On Fri, 2 May 1997, Dave Van Allen wrote:

> 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
> >
> 