[Outages-discussion] Cogent disconnecting Russia

[Matthew Petach]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 2:00 PM Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:

> On Mar 4, 2022, at 13:54 , Sean Brown <sean.brown at saminds.com> wrote:
>
> [...]

> There is an unfortunate problem taking wording from a telecommunication
> world of over 100 years ago and relating it to the current way the internet
> works, but it would seem that those conventions would really properly only
> apply to Tier 1 networks.
>
>
> Cogent has some level of belief that they are a Tier 1 network (for
> whatever definition of that ill-defined term one wishes to apply).
>
> Owen
>

*smacks forehead*

Of course!

This is all smoke and mirrors; the *true* intent of Cogent's action is to
put to rest once and for all the debate taking place on

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tier_1_network&offset=&limit=500&action=history

By taking this action, they're aiming to cement their status as Tier 1,
not through complete connectivity, but through the political sphere.

;)

Matt
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