Subject: Re: The IPv6 Travesty that is Cogent's refusal to peer Hurricane 
Electric - and how to solve it Date: Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 05:36:13PM -0800 
Quoting Owen DeLong (o...@delong.com):
> 
> > On Jan 27, 2016, at 14:43 , Måns Nilsson <mansa...@besserwisser.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Subject: Re: The IPv6 Travesty that is Cogent's refusal to peer Hurricane 
> > Electric - and how to solve it Date: Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 12:28:01PM +0000 
> > Quoting Brandon Butterworth (bran...@rd.bbc.co.uk):
> > 
> >> tier 1 seems consistent with Cogents refusal.
> > 
> > one does not become a tier 1 by refusing to peer. an actual tier 1 will
> > of course most of the time refuse  settlement-free interconnection with
> > smaller actors to protect their revenue stream, but the traffic volumes
> > and short settlement-free paths to large parts of the Internet are what
> > make them a tier-1.
> 
> I disagree with this last part.
 
So do I, actually. I was just reporting what Tier-1 operators might feel be 
good for business.  Not that I believe that they're right. 

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