[3736] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Customer AS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Mon Aug 19 02:27:22 1996
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Aug 1996 16:47:34 EDT."
<Pine.SOL.3.95.960817164506.7207A-100000@nic.hq.cic.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 22:34:09 -0700
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
> > What Sprint's policy is actually meant to do is to discourage customers
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > from multi-homing to other providers. What their policy actually does is
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> This is not a bad thing in itself.
That depends on who you are and how important your network connectivity is.
Clearly if someone has a business plan that calls for their packets to be
carried "hot, live" by two different worldwide IP carriers, neither of those
can be SprintLink. If I were SprintLink I would think this was a bad thing.
