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Re: Cable standards question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Seagraves)
Mon Nov 14 09:58:39 2011

From: Daniel Seagraves <dseagrav@humancapitaldev.com>
In-Reply-To: <64BA4A04F13A7A43B289BAE7F07961F50AC92AE2@TN-Mail-1.mansfieldct.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:57:31 -0600
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Nov 14, 2011, at 8:42 AM, Sam (Walter) Gailey wrote:

> "The vendor will provide fiber connectivity between (building A) and =
(building B). Vendor will be responsible for all building penetrations =
and terminations. When  installing the fiber-optic cable the vendor will =
follow the appropriate TIA/EIA 568 standards for fiber-optic cabling."
>=20
> Any suggestions or examples of language would be very appreciated. =
Offlist contact is probably best.

Is it appropriate to just say "When installing fiber-optic cable the =
vendor will ensure the resulting installation does not suck."?
That would seem to me to be the most direct solution to the problem. I =
mean, standards are all well and good, but what if the standard sucks?
Then you'd be up a creek.

Maybe there should be a legal definition of the concept of suck, so that =
suckage could be contractually minimized.



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