[101752] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: request for help w/ ATT and terminology
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Thu Jan 17 07:41:53 2008
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:39:12 +0000
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: michael.dillon@bt.com
CC: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <D03E4899F2FB3D4C8464E8C76B3B68B001C30C43@E03MVC4-UKBR.domain1.systemhost.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
All you can say is...* **Caveat emptor.**
*michael.dillon@bt.com wrote:
>> 2. What's the technical terminology for the request for AT&T
>> to simply start advertising our netblock called? I'm
>> wondering if they're not understanding our request.
>>
>
> You hit the nail on the head with that question. It's called a
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
