[4007] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Agenda for next NANOG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed Sep 4 00:41:00 1996
To: bmanning@isi.edu
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 00:33:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@bbnplanet.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199609040145.AA06522@zed.isi.edu> from "bmanning@isi.edu" at Sep 3, 96 06:45:12 pm
> Actually, the traditional point2point link between any
> two ISPs is a private interconnect. It does not have to
> be a provider/subscriber relationship.
True, but let's look at the goal and not at the implementation.
If customers actively requested that their providers make available
interconnect statistics, and made such statistics a contractual
requirement, perhaps this would happen more often.
Of course, merely saying that is not quite so simple, since there are
folks who have made (or claimed to have made) such requests in the
past.
Nevertheless, the current economic model does not expressly prohibit this
kind of thing.
--jhawk
