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Level 3 and Cogent Reach Agreement on Peering
Armour Hotdog writes "Level3 and Cogent have announced an agreement on a modified peering contract that provides for settlement-free peering subject to certain unspecified conditions. This is a welcome announcement considering the disruption caused earlier when Level3 depeered Cogent. After that earlier dispute, Level3 temporarily restored peering, but announced that they would once again depeer Cogent on November 9th, unless the parties could come to an agreement."
I use neither Level3 nor Cogent. I use an ISP with a multitude of backbone connections. That's provided by competition which isn't hampered by expensive regulation or licensing.
As for Sprint and MCI, I've had 5 occasions where my LD provider lost connectivity. I've been using risky 1c/minute phone cards for years and the companies often go belly up, with their 800 #'s pointing to nowhere.
Don't harm my choices because you use a bad provider.
Great thought and one that really brings the point across.
The only place it falls short is that, historically, government intervention never heeds the consumers' needs, just the needs of the best briber.
Yes, exactly!
Why did you end your post before you were done?
. There already is a need for 'multiple routing paths', at least for any web site which wants to come close to 99.999% availability.
Yes, with today's antiquated DNS and point-to-point IP structure. But why stick to ancient rituals?
We want information, we want it now, we want it fast. The web as we know it is slipping, specifically because of DNS and PTP services.
Why should McDonalds get mcdonalds.com? Boring. Let McDonalds hive a site into a WWWtorent. Type "mcdonalds food" into GoogleWWWikiTorrent and get that site. You're a seed for others, closer to some than the old McD servers. Trusted seeds gain power. Untrusted don't.
You want "McDonalds", the Firefly season 3 episode, you can get it. Domain structure is dead, boring, monopolistic, over-regulated.
Yes, my 'solution' isn't well thought out. People can created poisoned seeds (and their IPv6 will be worthless or their permanent IPv8 will fail to seed. Whatever, the solution is probably uninvented yet, but within our grasp.
I fail to see the need for DNS or peering agreements. Give me complex 3D routing and massive search engine utilization. We'll soon forget that WWW, MP3, XVID, POP3, DSL, and VoIP were considered different. Data is data, held back because of old manipulation techniques.