[85357] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Level 3's side of the story
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Hubbard)
Fri Oct 7 19:26:44 2005
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 19:26:18 -0400
From: "David Hubbard" <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
From: William Allen Simpson
>=20
> I don't remember seeing this public notice from Level(3) posted....
> Wouldn't that be "without notice from Level(3)"?
They notified Cogent, not the public. Cogent chose to
not do anything other than hope they won the staring
contest when Level 3 terminated the link, which
apparently they did. Be interesting to see what
will happen in a month when they go at it again.
>=20
> Splendid, that gives the world sufficient time to accept=20
> Cogent's offer of 1 year free service.
This is not the first time Cogent has used their customers
as pawns in peering disputes, I don't know if I'd jump on
the bandwagon so quickly (spoken as a customer of both
companies).
David
