[85359] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3's side of the story
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (william(at)elan.net)
Fri Oct 7 19:42:01 2005
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 16:41:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0510071622520.7539@sokol.elan.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
BTW - it sounds like maybe somebody was required to give 30 days notice
of service changes to certain customers with good laywers....
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, william(at)elan.net wrote:
> And after November 9, what is then? Cogent/L3 depeering part 2?
>
> On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
>
>> http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-07-2005/0004164041&EDATE=
>>
>> "On October 6, Level 3, as it had repeatedly advised Cogent it would,
>> terminated free traffic exchange with Cogent. Because Internet users,
>> apparently without notice from Cogent and through no fault of their own,
>> have been impacted, Level 3 has, effective immediately, re-established a
>> free connection to Cogent. In order to allow Internet users to make
>> alternative arrangements, we will maintain this connection until 6:00 a.m.
>> ET, November 9, 2005. The effectiveness of this arrangement of course
>> depends on Cogent's willingness to maintain their side of the traffic
>> exchange.
