-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Irving Sent: June 26, 2002 10:57 AM To: Marc Pierrat Cc: deepak@ai.net; blitz; ekgermann@cctec.com; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: How low can Worldcom stock go?
With the recent rash of chapter 11's and 13's perhaps we should be re-examining the peering practices in America...
That's already being done. Of course, not in the way you seem to suggest... Instead, you have increased depeering as everyone tries to squeeze [non-existant] money out of everybody else. Don't get me started on what C&W did to the Exodus backbone. It used to be that from our servers to my cable modem at home, it was Exodus -> Teleglobe -> Rogers. Now, after a massive round of depeering, it's Exodus -> C&W -> Sprint -> Teleglobe -> Rogers. It's like that with pretty much everything: you used to have some networks who peered directly with Exodus, now traffic to them goes through C&W and UUnet first, etc. Vivien -- Vivien M. vivienm@dyndns.org Assistant System Administrator Dynamic DNS Network Services http://www.dyndns.org/