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Re: The IPv6 Travesty that is Cogent's refusal to peer Hurricane

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hammett)
Thu Jan 28 21:01:16 2016

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 20:01:11 -0600 (CST)
From: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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Nothing says a better Internet than one the government pokes their nose around in. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 

Midwest-IX 
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----- Original Message -----

From: "William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us> 
To: "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com> 
Cc: "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog@nanog.org> 
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 5:25:47 PM 
Subject: Re: The IPv6 Travesty that is Cogent's refusal to peer Hurricane Electric - and how to solve it 

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote: 
> folk can rant on nanog all they want if it 
> makes them feel good or self-righteous. 

Hi Randy, 

It DOES make me feel good. And a little self-righteous. 

> won't change a damned thing. 

Some FCC employees read this forum. My impression is that they're not 
terribly far from concluding that closed peering policies are 
anti-competitive. When I have such impressions I'm usually off by 
years. Still, it would be nice if just once an industry cleaned itself 
up -before- regulators forced the issue. 

Regards, 
Bill Herrin 


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William Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us 
Owner, Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/> 


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