Just a note here I think needs to be said. In my case at least my experiences with peering and working with other networks has been extremely positive. I had the pleasure of for example having a loop in to Paix Pao1 and that was a very positive thing for my network and frankly business. Most of the carriers I spoke to were great and very responsive with the exception of the one I mentioned before and no it wasn't uunet or cnw. I have peered obviously in other facilities as well but I mentioned the Paix because in my case the impression was they went out of their way to be helpful and it was very positive. I think that its perhaps the sign of a larger problem that the public internet is basically help by one or two large companies ie UU and CW who don't wish to play with the rest of the net but not much can be done about that and no I'm not going to equate this ti Microsoft:). In the end let's hope market forces and economics win out and we'll see.