[26937] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: inter-NOC communications (was:Re: Definition of Congestion)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Howard C. Berkowitz)
Tue Feb 1 11:26:39 2000
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From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@clark.net>
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At 03:30 PM 01/31/2000 -0800, dave o'leary 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.
>
> dave
I have to chuckle reading this thread.
We can't even get our NOCs to talk to each other, and Marketing
people think we can do Inter-Provider QOS??
Hopefully I will have retired at an early age before we burn that bridge :)
-Steve
