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Re: What should ISPs ASPs MSPs xSPs do?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Sun Oct 25 19:05:54 2009

Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:04:27 -0400
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
In-Reply-To: <200910251709360.32BF5B92.26106@clifden.donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org



Sean Donelan wrote:
> Other than the usual damned if they do, damned if they don't; is there 
> any rough consensus about some practical things ISPs, ASPs, MSPs, xSPs 
> (and customers/users) should do or should not do?

It depends mostly on the environment they operate under which needs to 
take into account the vagaries of their customer base.

You will need to define things a whole lot better to get rough consensus 
  on any specifics.

Act locally think globally is probably the best you can get otherwise.

> Or is it just rough consensus what other people should do, but you'll 
> get upset if that rough consensus stopped you from doing something?  
> Stop stuff you don't like immediately, anytime of the day or night; but 
> give you years to fix your stuff even if it is hurting other people's 
> stuff.
> 

Thats just human nature.


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