North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Private interconnects
I agree. The DOJ ought to start looking at this to determine if anti-trust laws are being violated. I believe that they are and have been for quite some time. -- -- Karl Denninger ([email protected])| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly to FULL DS-3 Service | NEW! K56Flex support on ALL modems Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost On Sat, Nov 29, 1997 at 06:01:41PM -0800, David S. Holub wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Alan Hannan wrote: > > > Anyone that does definitively know, is likely to be covered under > > MNDA such that legally they couldn't tell you, anyway. > > Which is exactly the problem and why the DOJ and other regulators should > be concerned/informed. The Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreements to which you > refer Alan are not intended to to protect 'Proprietary Information' (i.e. > inventions and trade secrets) but rather to inhibit the First Amendment > Rights of many of these ISPs. The effect is to virtually eliminate good > faith bargaining between these carriers (that have used or continue to use > this MNDA vehicle) and the rest of the Internet which in turn allows for > highly discriminatory interconnection based on the theory that they can > squelch the reporting of it with the threat of disconnection, litigation > or both. > > Seems to be working too - for now. > > --david >
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