[141569] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent & HE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Thu Jun 9 05:03:33 2011
In-Reply-To: <20110609083946.GA18430@pob.ytti.fi>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 18:03:03 +0900
To: North American Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Composed on a virtual keyboard, please forgive typos.
On Jun 9, 2011, at 17:39, Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi> wrote:
> On (2011-06-09 00:55 -0700), Owen DeLong wrote:
>=20
>> To be an IPv6 TIer 1, one has to peer with other IPv6 Tier 1s. HE has
>> aggressively tried to improve the situation through promiscuous peering
>> in every way possible. If you are interested in peering with HE and
>> you have a presence at any of the exchange points we are at, send
>> an email to peering at HE.NET and we will peer.
>=20
> I look forward for IPv4 to go away, as in future I can have full free
> connectivity through HE to every other shop who all have full free connect=
ivity
> to HE. Something went terribly wrong in IPv4 land, where we're being unfai=
rly
> forced to pay to access other networks through them.
Non sequitor.
Even though HE gives away free transit now, Owen said nothing about free tra=
nsit.
As for free peering, LOTS of networks freely peer and make money, including m=
y current employer. (Actually, I think more open peering networks make mone=
y than closed peering networks. :-)
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
