[108897] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sprint / Cogent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Fri Oct 31 14:03:43 2008
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081031174455.GA19625@mx1.latt.net>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:03:38 -0400
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On Oct 31, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Majdi S. Abbas wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 01:20:23PM -0400, Randy Epstein wrote:
>> We hope Sprint and Cogent work out their differences, but in the
>> mean time,
>> we unfortunately will remain partitioned from Cogent.
>
> Randy,
>
> This brings up something I've always wondered. Why do we have
> public depeerings, rather than public deprefings? You'd think both
> sides could at least agree to set localpref to 1, and not send each
> other anything that they don't absolutely have to until they resolve
> their issues. Bypass them if at all possible, but don't partition
> the interwebs.
>
> Or am I dreaming of ponies again?
Dreaming.
If Sprint is upset that Cogent is sending Sprint much more traffic
than Sprint is sending Cogent, how does Sprint sending Cogent even
less traffic (and making the ratio even worse) help Sprint? Why would
Cogent care?
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TTFN,
patrick
