[108925] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: routing around Sprint's depeering damage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Sun Nov 2 03:29:30 2008
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:28:51 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <a3c2bd6c0811011659w61e20f1o73e4c749df44f1bb@mail.gmail.com>
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Dave Blaine wrote:
> There are at least three ways to address this Sprint / Cogent partition:
>
> 1. Send Vint Cerf back up to Capitol Hill with a doomsday
> scenario of what would happen to the economy if anyone else
> gets as stupid as Sprint has been, begging for laws that any
> tier-1 or tier-2 who wants to de-peer needs to provide all their
> customers and peers with 90 day notice or face stiff fines.
> Send John Schnizlein along with him to get the House
> Communications Director an Akamai hosting account.
> Repeat the "eyeballs-or-data, which is more valuable" mantra
> whether or not there are still forty Republicans in the Senate.
>
> 2. Pick up some more fiber, dust off the router manuals, and
> allow and recommend that tier-1s transit any third party
> tier-1-to-tier-1 traffic.
>
> 3. Both.
>
> Which is the best way?
>
4. Multihome.
~Seth
