Re: OpenTransit (france telecom) depeers cogent

["Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () telecomplete co uk>]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Patrick W Gilmore wrote:

> On Apr 14, 2005, at 5:16 PM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
>
> > > Surely FT's customers pay for access to Cogents network and vice 
> > > versa?
> >
> > In such a case, FT has done its part by paying Sprint for full transit
> > service. It is Cogent who is not accepting the route from their 
> > transit,
> > and who intentionally does not carry the global routing table. If I 
> > put up
> > a filter on my transit that says I will not accept routes from you 
> > unless
> > you peer with me, should your customers leave you because I did this?
> > Doesn't sound very fair to me. I guess it depends how important I am,
> > doesn't it?
>
> Is Cogent filtering the prefixes they get from Verio?  Or is Verio 
> filtering what they send to Cogent?  Does it matter?
>
> I think you have a very good point - FT is buying full transit.  Cogent 
> is the one without full reachability.
>
> Doesn't mean that FT didn't know this would be a problem when they took 
> the step, though.

Well, FT took the step as you say.. they are the instigator here.

But, they are in their right to do so and would have given proper written notice 
to Cogent so this isnt as much a surprise to them as is being suggested either.

Steve