[31940] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: InterNAP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bradley Dunn)
Tue Oct 31 20:57:41 2000
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 17:55:45 -0800
From: Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org>
To: "Spolidoro, Guilherme" <guilherme.spolidoro@unisys.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20001031175545.A3213@dunn.org>
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In-Reply-To: <950D48135359D211901A00104B9AE8A304602A77@us-bb-exch-4.bb.unisys.com>; from guilherme.spolidoro@unisys.com on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 08:53:03AM -0500
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On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 08:53:03AM -0500, Spolidoro, Guilherme wrote:
>
> Since they don't own the backbone, their SLAs apply only to their PNAPs,
> i.e. they cannot guarantee performance, packet loss, delay, outages, etc
> over somebody else's backbone (e.g. Sprint, UUNet, AT&T, etc).
The ability to "guarantee" performance is orthogonal to how you write
your SLAs.
Anyone with knowledge of risk management and actuarial science
understands this.
