Sprint peering policy

Tue Jul 2 17:02:42 UTC 2002

On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 17:53, Paul Vixie wrote:
> 
> > What is the connection between unregulated peering and the financial
> > difficulties we have seen?
> > 
> > The problems have been caused by:
> > 
> > - Bad business models
> > - Greed
> > - Corporate officers who have shirked their fudiciary responsibilities to
> >   the stockholders
> > 
> > If you can somehow tie peering into this, please be my guest, but it would
> > be a bit of a stretch.
> 
> you've asked and answered your own question, though.  remember, wcom tried
> to buy sprint and it was only the EU's antitrust folks who stopped them.

And I like to think that my demonstration of the insane paths that
packets travelled to Wcom, which I made to the anti-trust tribunal at
the time, helped to get that purchase stopped.