[26931] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: inter-NOC communications (was:Re: Definition of Congestion)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Mon Jan 31 18:49:53 2000
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@mibh.net>
Date: 31 Jan 2000 15:45:39 -0800
In-Reply-To: doleary@juniper.net's message of "31 Jan 2000 15:34:28 -0800"
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Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
doleary@juniper.net ("dave o'leary") writes:
> 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.
as in, "i'm sorry, but there's no word for ``outage'' in our language." (feh.)
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Paul Vixie <vixie@mibh.net>
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