[2860] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Metcalfe strikes again!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Tue May 7 10:14:37 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: cnielsen@vii.com (Christian Nielsen)
Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 09:19:53 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: paul@vix.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.93.960506213357.1907D-100000@lonepeak.vii.com> from "Christian Nielsen" at May 6, 96 09:35:57 pm
>On Mon, 6 May 1996, Paul A Vixie wrote:
>
>> Danger! Danger Will Robinson! The network is no longer a monopoly!
>> There's no single point of control, or of failure! No single person knows
>> everything that's going on! Central capacity planning isn't possible!
>>
>> Um, excuse me, but why is this a bad thing? (Rhetorical, don't answer.)
>
>We feel this is a 'Good' thing. For example, there are two companies
>with DS3's in Utah. One goes up and down the other stays up all the time. Which
>one do you think we go with? Also, there are many companies that think they can
>be a 'high speed/T1/T3/OC48' provider and not know what they are doing. The
>week will get weeded out. And the ones who know what they are doing will stay
>around.
Sorry for the fluff comment, but an observation: Even the weak will not
necessarily get weeded out if they're in the ISP/NSP business. Especially
if they start out in the ISP world and get enough of a revenue base.
> Christian Nielsen
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Avi
