Cogent/Level 3 depeering

Richard A Steenbergen ras at e-gerbil.net
Wed Oct 5 19:36:04 UTC 2005


On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:22:37PM -0500, Richard Irving wrote:
> 
> L3 wants CoGent to kneel, and kiss the ring,
> nothing more, nothing less.
> 
>  "They must smell blood in the water".

Peering and depeering is very much like playing poker, sometimes you smell 
blood, sometimes you've got a good hand, and sometimes you are just 
bluffing your ass off and hoping for the best. Experienced people can tell 
the difference.

The reality is that the particular kind of depeering which Level 3 is 
engaged in at the moment (on a wide variety of fronts besides just Cogent 
or even XO) is more like "desperation depeering" (brandish the sword and 
see who is willing to pay you money to leave them alone), and historically 
is an indication of serious financial problems in the very near future.

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