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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: UUNET Pulling Peering Agreements
According to several news reports I read on Monday/Tuesday, UUNet & The WELL kissed & made up. Is this no longer the casse? BTW, you can read about the David Hollub saga at: http://www.news.com:80/News/Item/0,4,10247,00.html Randy Benn Gordon Cook wrote: > > I have just had a phone call from a particpant in the news conference of > the well. What UUNET is doing to many of its peers, including the Well, is > now clear. According to my caller, Dave Hughes, it has served notice to > many if not most of its peers that, in late May and early June, it will > either terminate their peering session or that the peers will have to > start paying for the privilege. How much will be charged and under what > conditions is unknown. Why? Because the unfortunate peers either have to > **sign non disclosure agreements before** they even sit down with UUNET or > simply be cut off. > > I first heard an opaque reference to this from a nationally known figure a > couple of months ago. In the last 10 days I have heard separately and > privately from three different people one of whom is directly affected. I > asked him to call me. He never did. Now I think I understand why. Hughes > said that David (?) Hollub who is responsible for the Well's connectivity > and has just been fired by Bruce Katz the well's owner has revealed in a > well conference what UUNET is doing and that the story made it into the > wall street journal today. > > I will be sending Hughes a summary understanding of what I think this > means that he will post on the Well inviting national journalists to call > me for whatever information/insight I can give them into the story. I > would especially like to begin hearing from those directly affected. > Please detail very precisely what restrictions you place on the > information you send me. > > First it was AGIS (but who cares about AGIS?). Now UUNET. Tomorrow who? > MCI? As UUNET and others of the big five move to consolidate their > markets.......... let UUNET put the smaller national backbones against the > wall and whom do the rest of ISP's have to rely on? Those ISPs who did > not get hit in UUNET's first round of cuts. Will you get it in the neck in > the second or the third round? > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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