How low can Worldcom stock go?

Wed Jun 26 15:29:05 UTC 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On 
> Behalf Of Richard Irving
> Sent: June 26, 2002 10:57 AM
> To: Marc Pierrat
> Cc: deepak at ai.net; blitz; ekgermann at cctec.com; nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: How low can Worldcom stock go?
> 
>   With the recent rash of chapter 11's and 13's perhaps we should 
> be re-examining the peering practices in America...

That's already being done. Of course, not in the way you seem to
suggest... Instead, you have increased depeering as everyone tries to
squeeze [non-existant] money out of everybody else.

Don't get me started on what C&W did to the Exodus backbone. It used to
be that from our servers to my cable modem at home, it was Exodus ->
Teleglobe -> Rogers. Now, after a massive round of depeering, it's
Exodus -> C&W -> Sprint -> Teleglobe -> Rogers. It's like that with
pretty much everything: you used to have some networks who peered
directly with Exodus, now traffic to them goes through C&W and UUnet
first, etc. 

Vivien
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