Re: Cogent & Google IPv6

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

On Feb 24, 2016, at 4:48 PM, Ricky Beam <jfbeam () gmail com> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:48:22 -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick () ianai net> wrote:
> > And Ricky is wrong, the vast majority of prefixes Cogent routes have zero dollars behind them. Cogent gets paid by 
> > customers, not peers. (At least not the big ones.)
>
> Show me a single connection to Cogent for which Cogent isn't being paid. Cogent is the only provider I've ever heard 
> of that will not do any form of settlement-free peering.

You really think AT&T, Comcast, Level 3, Sprint, Verizon, etc. are paying Cogent?

Good thing I put my drink down before I read that.

Or do you think Cogent is paying all of them? That is a possibility, but it means that Cogent is not getting paid - by 
definition.

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TTFN,
patrick