On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 17:53, Paul Vixie wrote: > > > What is the connection between unregulated peering and the financial > > difficulties we have seen? > > > > The problems have been caused by: > > > > - Bad business models > > - Greed > > - Corporate officers who have shirked their fudiciary responsibilities to > > the stockholders > > > > If you can somehow tie peering into this, please be my guest, but it would > > be a bit of a stretch. > > you've asked and answered your own question, though. remember, wcom tried > to buy sprint and it was only the EU's antitrust folks who stopped them.
And I like to think that my demonstration of the insane paths that packets travelled to Wcom, which I made to the anti-trust tribunal at the time, helped to get that purchase stopped.
