Inside the Sprint vs. Cogent depeering fight->
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Swoolley
Swoolley writes "Slashdot covered
the news of the recent Sprint vs. Cogent depeering here
and here,
now a story I wrote for Forbes.com tells the inside
story of the fight, based on the fascinating 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.) 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 are evidence
for exactly the opposite case: keeping the Internet backbones free of
government meddling."
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