[179274] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Mon Apr 6 14:52:00 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: 6 Apr 2015 18:51:34 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1504061101030.24610@sasami.anime.net>
Cc: goemon@anime.net
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.64.1504061101030.24610@sasami.anime.net> you write:
>On Fri, 3 Apr 2015, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>> We've been down this road before - we've had our own problems on this
>> side of the puddle with transit providers who refused to deal with problem
>> customers because the provider billed by the packet, and the customers were
>> good about paying their bill - so dealing with the problem caused less packets
>> and thus less revenue.
>
>At least in the US the provider could be charged with willful negligence
>and face liability.
Please provide legal citations.
R's,
John