[108932] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: routing around Sprint's depeering damage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Sun Nov 2 09:34:57 2008
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 15:33:15 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <1E8B940C5E21014AB8BE70B975D40EDB483B87@bert.HiberniaAtlantic.local>
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On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, Rod Beck wrote:
> It is a short term issue that probably doesn't merit government
> intervention
The only government intervention I can imagine as being productive would
be to mandate what the "Internet" is, and if someone is selling access to
it, mandate that customers can demand a refund in case the "Internet
Access" doesn't provide access to enough a big part of it in a well enough
working manner.
If two parties were both to lose enough money over cutting off peering,
then perhaps they'd make sure there was a backup path that at least worked
well enough to enable them to refuse to refund their respective customers.
I see lots of problems with definitions in this model, but it's worked
(for some definition of "worked") in other areas and it might work here as
well.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
