The IPv6 Travesty that is Cogent's refusal to peer Hurricane Electric - and how to solve it

Thu Jan 21 19:05:02 UTC 2016

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Brandon Butterworth <brandon at rd.bbc.co.uk>
wrote:

> > > On Jan 21, 2016, at 1:07 PM, Matthew D. Hardeman <
> mhardeman at ipifony.com> wrote:
> > > Since Cogent is clearly the bad actor here (the burden being
> > > Cogent's to prove otherwise because HE is publicly on record as saying
> > > that theyd love to peer with Cogent)
>
> I'd like to peer with all tier 1's, they are thus all bad as
> they won't.
>
> HE decided they want to be transit free for v6 and set out on
> a campaign of providing free tunnels/transit/peering to establish
> this. Cogent, for all their faults, are free to not accept the
> offer.
>
> Can the Cogent bashing stop now, save it for when they do something
> properly bad.
>
> brandon
>

Selling a service that is considered internet but does not deliver full
internet access is generally considered properly bad.

I would not do business with either company, since neither of them provide
a full view.

CB