At 02:32 AM 5/2/97 -0400, you wrote:
Oh hell. I was just explaining to my boss last week how none of these NSPs trust each other and so that's why all these packets have to cross the country twice to get 20 miles down the road etc etc and now if UUNET is pulling peers then he's _really_ going to have my head.
Several questions:
1 - What is the point of the NDA? Is the NDA precedented?
2 - Are they pulling CIX peering? (Can that rtr get any more overloaded? :)
Last I heard, when the CIX moves locations, AGIS, MCI, UUNET, and Sprint will all be leaving the CIX.
3 - One of my upstream providers claims that Sprint pulled peering abruptly on them this morning without any warning and is now charging them $X (where X is a large number) to peer. Has this happened to anyone else, is it a Sprint policy to always charge for new peers, etc?
Thanks,
-Tung-Hui Hu hhui@arcfour.com
Well, this is the way its going to be. Can anyone really be that surprised? I've been watching this trend for over a year now. From a small network standpoint, it sux. I work for a small network now, and now I have to budget financing to talk to these other networks. But for the big boys, they are loosing money. They have to put up huge amounts of bandwidth at the exchanges, so people can transverse their network free of charge. In a business sense, where is the cost justification here? Well Gordo, I know you hate anything AGIS, but they saw this coming a mile away and acted on it. I guess we know now why the big boys never complained about the AGIS peering policy, because in the back of their minds, they thought it was a good idea. Markl Mark E Larson Senior Network Architect RUSTnet Inc. ----------------------------------------------- R U S T N E T I N C. A member of the Verio Group 1-800-691-5080 http://www.rust.net -----------------------------------------------