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Re: Sprint v. Cogent, some clarity & facts
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:52:00 -0500
On Nov 4, 2008, at 9:49 AM, David Freedman wrote:
2. The Internet cannot "route around" de-peeringI know everyone believes "the Internet routes around failures". While occasionally true, it does not hold in this case. To "route around" the"failure" would require transit. See item #1.The internet "routes around" technical failures, not political ones.
If two transit free networks have a technical failure which disables all peering between them, the Internet cannot route around it.
Intention is not the gating factor here. Intention just -guarantees- a problem exists, turning off BGP sessions and/or light is still the base problem. :-)
-- TTFN, patrick
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