Re: MCI WORLDCOM TO PAY $3.5 MILLION

[David Diaz <davediaz () iwcinc net>]

At 8:35 PM -0500 11/13/00, Daniel L. Golding wrote:
> That depends what you consider IOPS to be. Take your choice:
>
> a) Secret internet routing cabal. So secret, no one can figure out what
> they do.


The cabal makes jokes "Officially there is no cabal."
In reality the fact is that peering is a trust event.  You are 
trusting the engineers at another (competitive) network with 
connectivity to yours.  This also includes the ability to affect your 
network in the most extreme ways.  I believe it became human nature 
to trust some of the early internet engineers.  An engineer with a 
track record of running a stable network was worth of trust (ie 
peering).

The opposite is also true.  Any engineer/network that was constantly 
flapping would quickly be likely to be dropped as a peer.

Does this seem unfair?

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Thank you,
David Diaz
Chairman, iCEO
International Wire Communications, Inc.

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