[170032] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on ISPs' refusal to upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Sun Mar 23 15:28:13 2014
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 20:27:52 +0100
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
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* mpetach@netflight.com (Matthew Petach) [Sun 23 Mar 2014, 20:06 CET]:
>Doesn't sound too outlandish. Mind you, I'm sure
>it would raise costs, as that testing and validation
>wouldn't be free. But I'm sure we'd all be willing to
>pay an additional $10/month on our service to be
>sure it could deliver what was promised, or at least
>to ensure that what was promised was scaled down
>to match what could actually be delivered.
Nice strawman you erected there.
>Thanks!
Yeah, thanks for standing up for industries holding their customers
hostage to extract rents from companies trying to serve those customers.
-- Niels.
