North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: i think the cogent depeering thing is a myth of some kind
> This is a proven maneuver and Cogent is not the first to do it. i guess that without knowing who else these de-peered networks are customers of, it's hard for an outsider to guess which ratios into cogent's network by other peers will improve as a result of de-peering these networks. had you been writing for a technical audience i'm sure you would have alluded to this, i'm sure. now that i know the article was a leak rather than a publication, it all becomes clear. > ... That full explanation was missing from the writeup that is posted (and > I'll allow it to stay up for now), because that report was aimed at folks > who may not be fully conversant in peering - financial professionals. BTW, > thanks for dropping me an email to ask me about it, before posted to NANOG. the text i saw was so uncharacteristically non-dan-golding, that i really did think it was a hoax. you're right that i should have asked you about it; in my defense i was leaving for the weekend and didn't have as much time as this should've gotten. > As far as reachability from one provider to another - I've heard that one > can make routing changes quickly and easily on this crazy Internet thing. > Perhaps in the 24 hours since I wrote that, a few changes occurred? i'm a cogent customer, and my path to nlayer at the moment i read your note still went through cogent. what was i to think? anyway, problem solved.
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