[85364] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3's side of the story
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Fri Oct 7 22:43:54 2005
In-Reply-To: <B508B8D6-F7A9-4096-8F6E-482B3BBBBB0F@kuhtz.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 22:42:26 -0400
To: Christian Kuhtz <christian@kuhtz.com>
From: John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 10:15 PM -0400 10/7/05, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
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>>In any industry, it only takes a handful of consumers impacted through no fault of their own to generate significant political & regulatory attention. Reasonable-sounding explanations cannot stand if they imply that thousands of innocent parties can be impacted without notice.
>
>Nonsense. That only matters when somebody is looking for an opportunity to legislate.
You're right: administrators, regulators, and representatives are completely helpless except when making laws, and the reconnection of services (ref: "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.") can just as easily be attributed to uncanny judgement on Level 3's part as any other explanation.
/John
