> > However, it could also be that given the quick rise in cyber warfare that > they do not want to be caught in the crossfire and carrying and dealing > with the loads of DDOS and pure hacking attempts going in both directions. > The burden of dealing with this as well as payment issues and maybe for > purely ethical issues of dealing with a proven lying dictatorship may have > been the full motivation. >
This again is a slippery , and dangerous slope. Every network carries traffic that somebody somewhere finds 'objectionable'. If providers start making their own determinations about what is and isn't 'ok', it's a road to massive segmentation and separation of the internet. Already a road some countries have been going down, which is bad enough. ( I am not implying that this is why Cogent made the choice they did.) On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 8:31 AM Nicole H. <nicole...@gmail.com> wrote: > Some are suggesting that the disconnect by Cogent is financially > motivated. > However, it could also be that given the quick rise in cyber warfare that > they do not want to be caught in the crossfire and carrying and dealing > with the loads of DDOS and pure hacking attempts going in both directions. > The burden of dealing with this as well as payment issues and maybe for > purely ethical issues of dealing with a proven lying dictatorship may have > been the full motivation. > > > Nicole > > > On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 1:41 PM Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> > wrote: > >> >> >> > On Mar 4, 2022, at 13:14 , Bryan Fields <br...@bryanfields.net> wrote: >> > >> > On 3/4/22 3:52 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote: >> >> I would argue they don't have much of a choice: >> >> >> >> "The economic sanctions put in place as a result of the invasion and >> the >> >> increasingly uncertain security situation make it impossible for >> Cogent to >> >> continue to provide you with service." >> > >> > But Tier 1's don't pay for peering. >> >> Rostelecom isn’t a tier one. >> >> Owen >> >> > > -- > > > * Nicole Harrington * > * Operations & Engineering Manager - UNIX Systems Mistress * > * Powered by FreeBSD*,* Linux & All Things Open Source * > >
