[26564] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Independent rating service of colocation facilities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Crocker)
Thu Jan 6 23:17:16 2000
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Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 20:08:48 -0800
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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At 03:20 PM 1/6/2000 , Sean Donelan wrote:
>I was thinking of more a Board of Health rating instead of a ranking.
>McDonalds and a five-star resturant both receive a Grade A. But there is
>still plenty of room for puffery and service competition. And perhaps
>breaking it up into classes, carrier-grade, data-grade, financial-grade, etc.
Since I believe that co-lo should be the long-term mode for most
organization's web (and frequently mail) presence on the net, it would be
quite helpful to develop some industry-standard labels, with formal
definitions and requirements for adherence. (In other words, the co-lo
facility has to use the labels correctly and their service must warrant the
labels.)
There's a basic choice between labels about features and labels about
users. The former is like we see on some cable television channels, where
they list the nature of things in a movie that might be of concern (strong
language, adult content, nudity, violence...) The latter is like the
system used for US broadcast television and the one used for US movies,
doing an interpretive and prescriptive (parental) process, declaring who
should (not) consume the movie (PG-13).
For a nascent industry, I'd suggest first standardizing on the parameters,
with a follow-on -- and highly simplistic -- effort to develop usage
labels. The theory would be that the latter would need massive overhaul as
the industry matures. On the other hand, the parameters ought to be easier
to develop and more stable.
d/
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