On Sep 11, 2008, at 7:10 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
amidst all this high flyin' political theory discussion of rights,
there
is an elephant in the room. as conditions to merger/purchase, there
were legal restrictions placed on one or more significant operators
regarding [de-]peering (i.e. your statement above is significantly
incorrect). my altzheimer's device tells me that those
restrictions end
2008.12.31. expect change.
The fact there is a temporary exception to the rule for two
providers in
the US who agreed to the exception for reasons other than peering /
transit does not mean the rule is invalid.
so sorry to have interrupted a deep discussion of political theory on
rights and unwritten rules with operational reality :)
Cute. :-)
But the "operational reality" is that you have no real expectation of
connectivity to any other network.
--
TTFN,
patrick
