On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Deepak Jain wrote:
Perhaps someone from HE can re-confirm their open peering policy for
us?
If they aren't (open) anymore, I'm impressed by the bravado...
To be clear, I was not trying to imply that HE has a closed policy.
But I can see how people might think that given my Cogent example. My
apologies to HE.
And to be fair, I'm pounding on HE because they've always cared about
their customers. I expect Telia to care more about their own ego than
their customers' connectivity. So banging on them is nonproductive.
In summary: HE has worked tirelessly and mostly thanklessly to promote
v6. They have done more to bring v6 to the forefront than any other
network. But at the end of day, despite HE's valiant effort on v6, v6
has all the problems of v4 on the backbone, PLUS growing pains. Which
means it is difficult to rely on it, as v4 has enough dangers on its
own.
Anyway, I have confidence HE is trying to fix this. But I still think
the fact that it happened - whatever the reason - is a black eye for
the v6 "Internet", whatever the hell that is.
--
TTFN,
patrick
----- Original Message -----
From: Marco Hogewoning <mar...@marcoh.net>
To: Patrick W. Gilmore <patr...@ianai.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Mon Oct 12 12:15:34 2009
Subject: Re: IPv6 internet broken, cogent/telia/hurricane not peering
On Oct 12, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
It is sad to see that networks which used to care about
connectivity, peering, latency, etc., when they are small change
their mind when they are "big". The most recent example is Cogent,
an open peer who decided to turn down peers when they reached
transit free status.
I never thought HE would be one of those networks.
Do we have any proof it's HE rejecting peering or is it that Cogent en
Telia alike that are to proud to ask and think they can have a piece
of the pie as they did with v4 ?
MarcoH
