Cogent cutting links to Russia?

Mon Mar 7 13:45:39 UTC 2022

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> However, it could also be that given the quick rise in cyber warfare that
> they do not want to be caught in the crossfire and carrying and dealing
> with the loads of DDOS and pure hacking attempts going in both directions.
> The burden of dealing with this as well as payment issues and maybe for
> purely ethical issues of dealing with a proven lying dictatorship may have
> been the full motivation.
>

This again is a slippery , and dangerous slope.

Every network carries traffic that somebody somewhere finds
'objectionable'. If providers start making their own determinations about
what is and isn't 'ok', it's a road to massive segmentation and
separation of the internet. Already a road some countries have been going
down, which is bad enough.

( I am not implying that this is why Cogent made the choice they did.)

On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 8:31 AM Nicole H. <nicole4pt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some are suggesting that the disconnect by Cogent is financially
> motivated.
> However, it could also be that given the quick rise in cyber warfare that
> they do not want to be caught in the crossfire and carrying and dealing
> with the loads of DDOS and pure hacking attempts going in both directions.
> The burden of dealing with this as well as payment issues and maybe for
> purely ethical issues of dealing with a proven lying dictatorship may have
> been the full motivation.
>
>
> Nicole
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 1:41 PM Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
> wrote:
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>> > On Mar 4, 2022, at 13:14 , Bryan Fields <Bryan at bryanfields.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 3/4/22 3:52 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote:
>> >> I would argue they don't have much of a choice:
>> >>
>> >> "The economic sanctions put in place as a result of the invasion and
>> the
>> >> increasingly uncertain security situation make it impossible for
>> Cogent to
>> >> continue to provide you with service."
>> >
>> > But Tier 1's don't pay for peering.
>>
>> Rostelecom isn’t a tier one.
>>
>> Owen
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>>
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