On Sep 11, 2008, at 7:10 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
amidst all this high flyin' political theory discussion of rights, there is an elephant in the room. as conditions to merger/purchase, there were legal restrictions placed on one or more significant operators regarding [de-]peering (i.e. your statement above is significantly incorrect). my altzheimer's device tells me that those restrictions end 2008.12.31. expect change. The fact there is a temporary exception to the rule for two providers in the US who agreed to the exception for reasons other than peering / transit does not mean the rule is invalid.
so sorry to have interrupted a deep discussion of political theory on rights and unwritten rules with operational reality :)
Cute. :-) But the "operational reality" is that you have no real expectation of connectivity to any other network. -- TTFN, patrick