Re: Cogent & HE

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Jun 8, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Ken Chase wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 03:05:05PM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen said:
> > global reachability, in the hopes that it will strengthen their 
> > strategic position for peering in the long term (i.e. they both want to 
> > be an "IPv6 Tier 1").
> >
> > I'm not making a judgement call about the rightness or wrongness of the 
> > strategy (and after all, it clearly hasn't been THAT big of an issue 
> > considering that it has been this way for MANY months), but to attempt 
> > to "blame" one party for this issue is the height of absurdity. PR 
> > stunts and cake baking not withstanding, they're both equally complicit.
>
> So we have to buy from BOTH HE and Cogent?! Sounds like market fixing to me! :/
Not at all... You can peer with HE.

Try that with Cogent and then tell me it's the same.


Owen