[79749] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Thu Apr 14 16:58:55 2005
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>
To: "'Richard A Steenbergen'" <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:58:08 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20050414195157.GE696@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> You're missing the big picture.
No I don't think so :-)
> If Cogent cared about connectivity to FT's customers, it
> would man up and pay for the transit to reach them. However,
> Cogent cares more about the long-term benefits of settlement
> free transit than it does about the short term benefits of
> being able to reach FT's customers today, so they choose not
> to pay for the transit in the hopes that FT will blink. Not
> that there is anything wrong with that, but that is the cold
> hard reality of the decision that they have made. It might
> even be the right decision. If you don't like it, no one is
> putting a gun to your head and making you buy Cogent (or FT) transit.
Surely FT's customers pay for access to Cogents network and vice versa?
