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Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia?
From: Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2022 14:03:53 -0800
On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 12:55 PM Martin Hannigan <hannigan () gmail com> wrote:
I would argue they don't have much of a choice: "The economic sanctions put in place as a result of the invasion and the increasingly uncertain security situation make it impossible for Cogent to continue to provide you with service." I would expect to see others follow suit if that is the case.
That's an interesting slope to slide along... I fully understand ISPs disconnecting customers for non-payment; we've all had to do that at one point or another in our careers, I'm sure. However, that's generally done *after* the customer has demonstrated an inability or unwillingness to pay their bills. This doesn't seem to indicate that any existing invoices have gone unpaid past their due date, but simply that there is *concern* that a future bill might go unpaid due to the economic sanctions. I'm not sure that's a good precedent for a service provider to create; "we may terminate your service at any point if we suspect that at an unspecified time in the future, you may become unable to pay future invoices." Shades of Minority Report. We'll imprison you today for a crime we suspect you will commit in the future. ^_^; If and when bills go unpaid, I fully support turning off customers. I worry about the precedent of disconnecting based on suspicions of what might happen in the future, however. Matt
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- Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia?, (continued)
- Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia? Bryan Fields (Mar 04)
- Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia? Owen DeLong via NANOG (Mar 04)
- Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia? Nicole H. (Mar 07)
- Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia? Tom Beecher (Mar 07)
- Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia? Masataka Ohta (Mar 07)
- Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia? Bryan Fields (Mar 04)
- Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia? David Conrad (Mar 04)
- Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia? Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe (Mar 04)
- Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia? William Herrin (Mar 04)
- Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia? Rubens Kuhl (Mar 04)
- Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia? Tom Beecher (Mar 04)
- Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia? Michael Thomas (Mar 04)
- Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia? Aaron Wendel (Mar 04)
- Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia? Martin Hannigan (Mar 11)
- Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia? Masataka Ohta (Mar 04)
- Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia? Matthew Petach (Mar 04)
- Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia? Masataka Ohta (Mar 05)
- Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia? JeffP (Mar 07)
- Re: Cogent cutting links to Russia? Masataka Ohta (Mar 07)