[145532] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: meeting network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Tue Oct 11 04:27:32 2011
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:25:47 -0700
From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 10/10/11 3:41 PM, Frank Bulk wrote:
> Holding the last 10% of the meeting room payment seems like a good start for
> any venue.
It's worthless. It's like being single-homed on a line with an SLA that
refunds some small percent of your service provider fee for extended
outages - fat lot of good that does you when your line Goes Down. The
hotel's IT department will assure them (and you) that they have the
situation covered, and then when it goes down you get a whole whopping
10% discount, but in the meantime you Have No Network.
To get their attention, to make sure they are really ready to provision
the network capacity correctly (with adequate hardware, software,
bandwidth, appropriate configs, etc.) the penalty needs to be something
closer to "50% of all fees paid by the organization AND our attendees,
for meeting rooms, food service, AND for lodging". Then when the
network dies everyone gets 50% refunded. That will get the hotel
management's attention and *possibly* help ensure that their IT
department really DOES have the situation properly spec'd and
provisioned to handle the traffic.
jc
