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Re: Level 3's side of the story

  • From: Robert E.Seastrom
  • Date: Sat Oct 08 08:50:26 2005

Kevin Loch <[email protected]> writes:

> Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
>> Certainly these are high-margin but low-bandwidth customers, maybe
>> with enough complaints Cogent will be willing to stick them on a
>> smaller seperate ASN which is willing to buy transit.
>
> Does anyone have reachability data for c-root during this episode?
>
> I wonder if they made separate arrangements for that or are planning
> to make arrangements for phase 2.

The nice thing about having 13 root nameservers is that it really
doesn't matter whether they do or not.

If it starts to become trendy to have root nameservers on
intentionally-partially-connected networks, (say, maybe four of them)
*then* we can start thinking about the consequences.

                                        ---rob