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The Other Side of the Sprint Vs. Cogent Depeering

Posted by kdawson on from the working-it-out dept.

Swoolley writes "A month back this community discussed the Sprint vs. Cogent depeering. Now a story I wrote for Forbes.com tells the inside story of the fight, based on the lawsuits the two companies filed against each other in Virginia state court. For once, thanks to those suits, the public gets to see the details of a confidential peering agreement between two of the Internet's largest autonomous systems, as well as the circumstances leading up to the depeering. (Which company is in the right? Read the facts and decide for yourself.) While some people have argued that the depeering is reason for more government regulation, the Forbes story makes the case that details of the recent Cogent vs. Sprint fight argue for exactly the opposite: keeping the Internet backbones free of government meddling."

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  1. Well, DUH! by overshoot · · Score: 2, Funny

    While some people have argued that the depeering is reason for more government regulation [CC], the Forbes story makes the case that details of the recent Cogent vs. Sprint fight argue for exactly the opposite: keeping the Internet backbones free of government meddling."

    This is Forbes, after all. According to Forbes, the Great Depression was proof of the need for less government regulation.

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  2. Re:There seems to be a tags issue by maxume · · Score: 1, Funny

    As far as I know, the tags exists to make fun of the french.

    I figure other users will catch up eventually.

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  3. Re:Mod parent up by Hatta · · Score: 4, Funny

    I find smoking pot to be a much better treatment for an alcohol induced hangover. How this relates to the GPs analogy is not immediately clear.

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  4. Re:Mod parent up by David+Gerard · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's like a car. Government funding, properly applied, will turn a Trabant into a stretch limo.

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  5. Re:Mod parent up by idontgno · · Score: 5, Funny

    You might be able to drink away a hangover, but it's just going to result in a worse hangover later.

    Not necessarily.

    I'm not saying it's better than a hangover, but at least you can honestly say it isn't a hangover.

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  6. Right idea, bad example... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    > This is Forbes, after all. According to Forbes, the Great Depression was proof of the need for less government regulation.

    Too many Libertarians here will actually agree with that. Let's put that another way that Slashdotters might understand:

    This is Forbes. They had Daniel Lyons writing about how SCO would win against those Communist Linux hippies.