[85323] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent/Level 3 Contracts (was: Cogent/Level 3 depeering)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Fri Oct 7 13:39:13 2005
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 13:38:23 -0400
From: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0510071434110.10796-100000@server2.tcw.telecomplete.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, William Allen Simpson wrote:
>>Rather than speculation, it would be helpful to refer to the actual
>>contracts. Please post the relevant sections, Mr Wilcox.
>
> the contract talks of on-net traffic, off-net traffic and excused outages
>
> excused outages includes that of third party network providers
>
> off-net traffic has a 99% SLA excluding excused outages.
>
Again, rather than speculation, it would be helpful to refer to the
actual contracts. Please post the relevant sections, not your summary
of an index of definitions, Mr Wilcox.
For instance, I rather doubt that the contract language defines a
decision of L(3) to terminate connectivity to a third party as an
"excused outage". But we won't know without the contract.
Enlighten us.
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William Allen Simpson
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