Rolf Medal <rolf@ie-corp.net> writes:

Internet express has experienced great difficulty in establishing peering agreements with MCI, Sprint & PPN.

If you have also experienced problems in this regard, we encourage you to inform us ASAP. There currently is a class action suit in progress.

Wah wah wah wah. We can't get the multibillion-dollar corporations to treat us as business equals, such that we can get unpaid-for customer connectivity. Wah wah wah wah. I guess it's fortunate that in the land of the U.S.A., the people who aren't intelligent enough to do the very simple things necessary to make themselves MORE effective competitors for Internet services revenue than the multibillion-dollar corporations can vent their rage in frivolous class-action lawsuits. The funny thing is that existence proof of this can be found among several of the formerly small-fry providers which are now among the big N "tier one" providers. The funnier thing is that the same thing that made a couple of them competitive with ANS CO+RE's allegedly unfair marketplace tactics trivially could be successfully repeated. It'll be amusing to see if these people who are ill-equipped to make their fortunes without direct subsidy by their bigger competitors are successful in court, particularly against MCI, which has spent the last decade and change suing itself into existence, and is no stranger to aggressive, expensive, time-consuming litigation. (Frankly, I wonder if the lawsuit will end before everyone involve has died of old-age, or technology has advanced enough to make the whole lawsuit completely irrelevant.) Meanwhile, kindly direct this to com-priv. It has NO relevance whatsoever to NANOG, even in the new NANOG which is all noise and no signal. Sean.