[141562] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent & HE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Jun 9 04:00:57 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110608201027.GC19328@sizone.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 00:56:37 -0700
To: Ken Chase <ken@sizone.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 8, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Ken Chase wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 03:05:05PM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen said:
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>> strategic position for peering in the long term (i.e. they both want =
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>> be an "IPv6 Tier 1").
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>> I'm not making a judgement call about the rightness or wrongness of =
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>> strategy (and after all, it clearly hasn't been THAT big of an issue=20=
>> considering that it has been this way for MANY months), but to =
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>> to "blame" one party for this issue is the height of absurdity. PR=20
>> stunts and cake baking not withstanding, they're both equally =
complicit.
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> So we have to buy from BOTH HE and Cogent?! Sounds like market fixing =
to me! :/
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Not at all... You can peer with HE.
Try that with Cogent and then tell me it's the same.
Owen
