[37250] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Cable & Wireless "de-peering"?!?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Tue May 8 04:11:27 2001
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 09:08:40 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
Cc: hardie@equinix.com, Peter van Dijk <peter@dataloss.nl>,
nanog@merit.edu
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> Another possible disadvantage with 'free' peering is you may have a harder
> time getting the larger companies to deal with issues that arise surrounding
> that peering. They may feel they have no financial incentive to worry about
> it, and you really have no contractual leverage to get, for example,
> response time guarantees.
Isnt the financial issue and management overhead less (relatively) for a
large company with a large well ordered NOC than that of a small one? So
their only excuse remains the one that they 'think your too small to care'
Steve
