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

[Gordon Cook <cook () netaxs com>]

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 () fast net (610) 289-1100  http://www.fast.net
> FASTNET - PA/NJ/DE Internet Solutions
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:        Stephen Balbach [SMTP:stephen () clark net]
> > Sent:        Friday, May 02, 1997 6:43 AM
> > To:  Gordon Cook
> > Cc:  nanog () merit edu; inet-access () earth com; dave () 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

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