C&W Peering

Richard Welty rwelty at averillpark.net
Tue Jun 5 01:03:15 UTC 2001


At 08:51 PM 6/4/2001 -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote:
>I know almost nothing about bankruptcy, so I would love for someone
>who does to comment.  Put simply, if a company can't pay its
>creditors and suppliers do they have any chance of entering into
>a new purchase agreement?  I know that I personally wouldn't offer
>them Net-30 payment terms right now.

actually, this is an interesting point. normally in bankruptcy,
vendors for the bankrupt outfit are not permitted to terminate
services.

now a true peering agreement isn't a vendor/customer relationship,
but it is interesting to consider how a bankruptcy court might
see it. C&W has done some level of damage (how much is uncertain)
to a company in bankruptcy, and there was probably some written
agreement with the force of a contract between the two.

i bet this ends up in court more or less immediately.

richard

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