Cyberpromotions plans to acquire or merge with a national ISP?

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Sorry Randy, there's nothing in this you can cut or paste into your Cisco.
But I think that peering with a Cyberpromotions-partnered ISP would be a
huge operational problem based on reports of AGIS's experiences with them,
and I wanted to give everyone a heads-up that Cyberpromotions appears not
to be ready to fold up their tent and stop spamming us all quite yet.

Quoting a phone company interconnection agreement:

   "The Telephone Company will administer its network to ensure the
   provision of acceptable service levels to all telecommunications
   users of the Telephone Company's network services. The Telephone
   Company maintains the right to apply protective controls on any
   traffic that it carries over its network in order to prevent
   unsatisfactory performance to other users."

Time to talk to the lawyers again, sigh...

     says three compaines are being considered, and all have peering
     agreements through 2006 or 2008. "That allows us time to make this

Since almost all peering agreements are covered by NDA's, who in the
know could refute him. Hint: Does a 10 year peering agreement sound
too good to be true?

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Since almost all peering agreements are covered by NDA's, who in the
know could refute him. Hint: Does a 10 year peering agreement sound
too good to be true?
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And how many peering agreements don't allow either party to drop out, say
after 30 days notice?

-Deepak.

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Deepak Jain wrote:

>
> Since almost all peering agreements are covered by NDA's, who in the

> know could refute him. Hint: Does a 10 year peering agreement sound

> too good to be true?
> --

And how many peering agreements don't allow either party to drop out,
say
after 30 days notice?

Even if they do, and people peer with them, so long as everybody
knowswhat address space they use they can still be blackholed :slight_smile:

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==>Since almost all peering agreements are covered by NDA's, who in the
==>know could refute him. Hint: Does a 10 year peering agreement sound
==>too good to be true?

I've heard that 10 year agreements are pretty common, except that they
have "out clauses" which basically means they could give 30 day notice for
any reason whatsoever.

/cah

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In this day and age, I'd be surprised to see many peering
agreements without spam clauses .... - regardless of the 30 day notice ...

                Tom