[26930] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: inter-NOC communications (was:Re: Definition of Congestion)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Mon Jan 31 18:41:53 2000
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 15:39:20 -0800
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: "dave o'leary" <doleary@juniper.net>
Cc: Sam Thomas <sthomas@lart.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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On 01/31/00, dave o'leary <doleary@juniper.net> wrote:
> Attempts to "standardize" inter-NOC communication happened a couple of
> times in the early 90's in the IETF, but it got too ugly, with too many
> barriers (basically people not wanting to expose dirty laundry). I fear
> that attempts to do so now when the providers are *really* competing with
> each other (as opposed to back in the old daze when we were all
> friends :-) will suffer the same fate, other than on a pairwise basis between
> NOCs that cooperate well with each other anyway.
Those of us who are willing to communicate with each other
should go ahead and write up a BCP, because the folks who're
scared to admit that they're fallible won't follow it anyway.
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