[101751] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: request for help w/ ATT and terminology
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (michael.dillon@bt.com)
Thu Jan 17 05:56:28 2008
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:54:42 -0000
In-Reply-To: <49900C758A716C499CE8C56BF0CB52710814D94B@newexch01.ohana.watg.com>
From: <michael.dillon@bt.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> 2. What's the technical terminology for the request for AT&T=20
> to simply start advertising our netblock called? I'm=20
> wondering if they're not understanding our request.
You hit the nail on the head with that question. It's called a=20
purchase order request. You bought vanilla Internet access which
uses AT&T's aggregate address announcements and now you want them
to provide a different service where they manage special announcements
for your address prefix.=20
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
When dealing with large companies, you get cheap prices when you
buy standard products, not when you buy customized services.
--Michael Dillon
P.S. if your network is all in one cage, it can't be that difficult
to just renumber it all into AT&T address space.
