Re: Level 3 Peering Guidelines

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

On Aug 26, 2011, at 11:10 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:32:00 EDT, "Patrick W. Gilmore" said:
> > Next time Cogent de-peers someone, customers do not care who was being
> > more reasonable.  They care that their links are broken.
>
> Wouldn't that mostly affect people who are silly enough to single-home to a Tier-1 that
> gets involved in a peering dispute?

Which $PROBLEM does not affect only those who are "silly enough" to not put mitigation tools for $PROBLEM?

And the customers still don't care.  They just care _that_ it affected them - at least during the problem.  Although 
one can hope they care enough to change their behavior afterward.

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TTFN,
patrick