[151698] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Quad-A records in Network Solutions ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arturo Servin)
Wed Mar 28 19:16:07 2012
From: Arturo Servin <arturo.servin@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1b1c34a7-1446-4f95-b8d6-9b642b1eabd2@email.android.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:15:30 +0200
To: Joseph Snyder <joseph.snyder@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I am not taking about a big imaginary company. I am taking about =
NSI and this specific case.
Regards,
as
On 29 Mar 2012, at 00:55, Joseph Snyder wrote:
> I agree, but in a big company it generally would cost at least 10s of =
thousands of dollars just for training alone. The time away from the =
phones that would have to be covered would exceed that. Let's say you =
had 8000 phone staff and they were getting $10/be and training took an =
hour. That is 80k coverage expenses alone. For a large company I would =
expect a project budget of at least 250k minimal. And probably more if =
the company exceeds 50,000 employees.
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> Arturo Servin <arturo.servin@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Another reason to not use them.
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> Seriusly, if they cannot expend some thousands of dollars =
(because it shouldn't be more than that) in "touching code, (hopefully) =
testing that code, deploying it, training customer support staff to =
answer questions, updating documentation, etc." I cannot take them as a =
serious provider for my names.
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> Regards,
> .as
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> On 28 Mar 2012, at 21:16, John T. Yocum wrote:
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> > On 3/28/2012 12:13 PM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote:
> >> I'm not convinced. What you mention is real, but the code they need =
is
> >> little more than a regular expression that can be found on Google =
and a
> >> 20-line script for testing lames. And a couple of weeks of testing, =
and
> >> I think I'm exaggerating.
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> >> If they don't want to offer support for it, they can just
> put up some
> >> disclaimer.
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> >> regards,
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> >> Carlos
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> >> On 3/28/12 3:55 PM, David Conrad wrote:
> >>> On Mar 28, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote:
> >>>> I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories, but, c'mon. For a =
provisioning
> >>>> system, an AAAA record is just a fragging string, just like any =
other
> >>>> DNS record. How difficult to support can it be ?
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> >>> Of course it is more than a string. It requires touching code, =
(hopefully) testing that code, deploying it, training customer support =
staff to answer questions, updating documentation, etc. Presumably =
Netsol did the cost/benefit analysis and decided the potential increase =
in revenue generated by the vast hordes of people demanding IPv6 (or the =
potential lost in revenue as the vast hordes transfer away) didn't =
justify the
> expense. Simple business decision.
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> >>> Regards,
> >>> -drc
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> > That's assuming their system is sanely or logically designed. It =
could be a total disaster of code, which makes adding such a feature a =
major pain.
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> > --John
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