[141506] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent & HE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Chase)
Wed Jun 8 16:13:29 2011
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 16:10:27 -0400
From: Ken Chase <ken@sizone.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20110608200505.GD18302@gerbil.cluepon.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 03:05:05PM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen said:
>global reachability, in the hopes that it will strengthen their
>strategic position for peering in the long term (i.e. they both want to
>be an "IPv6 Tier 1").
>
>I'm not making a judgement call about the rightness or wrongness of the
>strategy (and after all, it clearly hasn't been THAT big of an issue
>considering that it has been this way for MANY months), but to attempt
>to "blame" one party for this issue is the height of absurdity. PR
>stunts and cake baking not withstanding, they're both equally complicit.
So we have to buy from BOTH HE and Cogent?! Sounds like market fixing to me! :/
Guess if we do we can advertise that on our webpage... "now with BOTH halves
of the ipv6 internets!"
/kc
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