[20346] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Discussion point: Telco quality?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Fri Oct 9 12:54:57 1998
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 09:37:15 -0700
To: Paul Ferguson <ferguson@cisco.com>
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: bill.st.arnaud@canarie.ca, "NANOG flunkies" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981009100112.0080feb0@lint.cisco.com>
At 10:01 AM 10/9/98 -0400, Paul Ferguson wrote:
>At 09:46 AM 10/9/98 -0400, Bill St. Arnaud wrote:
>
>>> Define "reliable".
>>
>>Good point. Many carriers and telco manufacturers are coming to the
>>Internet business saying that we have the knowledge and expertise to build
>>99.99999+ reliable networks - therefore eventually we are going to take over
>>the business. Reliable is easy to define in terms of voice calls. But it
>>has whole different set of meanings in the IP world, which most carriers and
>>telco manufacturers fail to understand. For example I can have a 99.9999+
>>SONET network, but if I can't access my DNS root server, then I clearly
>>don't have a reliable network.
>
>Bingo.
Yes, the answer is to run your own root-server, a la GRS.
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