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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