Level 3's side of the story
John Curran
jcurran at istaff.org
Sat Oct 8 02:42:26 UTC 2005
At 10:15 PM -0400 10/7/05, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
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>>In any industry, it only takes a handful of consumers impacted through no fault of their own to generate significant political & regulatory attention. Reasonable-sounding explanations cannot stand if they imply that thousands of innocent parties can be impacted without notice.
>
>Nonsense. That only matters when somebody is looking for an opportunity to legislate.
You're right: administrators, regulators, and representatives are completely helpless except when making laws, and the reconnection of services (ref: "Because Internet users, apparently without notice from Cogent and through no fault of their own, have been impacted, Level 3 has, effective immediately, re-established a free connection to Cogent.") can just as easily be attributed to uncanny judgement on Level 3's part as any other explanation.
/John
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