Re: UUNET Pulling Peering Agreements

["Randall S. Benn" <rbenn () clark net>]

According to several news reports I read on Monday/Tuesday, UUNet & The
WELL kissed & made up.  Is this no longer the casse?

BTW, you can read about the David Hollub saga at:
        http://www.news.com:80/News/Item/0,4,10247,00.html

Randy Benn


Gordon Cook wrote:
> I have just had a phone call from a particpant in the news conference of
> the well. What UUNET is doing to many of its peers, including the Well, is
> now clear. According to my caller, Dave Hughes, it has served notice to
> many if not most of its peers that, in late May and early June, it will
> either terminate their peering session or that the peers will have to
> start paying for the privilege. How much will be charged and under what
> conditions is unknown.  Why? Because the unfortunate peers either have to
> **sign non disclosure agreements before** they even sit down with UUNET or
> simply be cut off.
>
> I first heard an opaque reference to this from a nationally known figure a
> couple of months ago. In the last 10 days I have heard separately and
> privately from three different people one of whom is directly affected. I
> asked him to call me. He never did. Now I think I understand why. Hughes
> said that David (?) Hollub who is responsible for the Well's connectivity
> and has just been fired by Bruce Katz the well's owner has revealed in a
> well conference what UUNET is doing and that the story made it into the
> wall street journal today.
>
> I will be sending Hughes a summary understanding of what I think this
> means that he will post on the Well inviting national journalists to call
> me for whatever information/insight I can give them into the story. I
> would especially like to begin hearing from those directly affected.
> Please detail very precisely what restrictions you place on the
> information you send me.
>
> 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?
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