[40373] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MPLS VPNs or not?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Kuhtz)
Tue Aug 7 23:38:03 2001
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 23:37:13 -0400
From: Christian Kuhtz <ck@arch.bellsouth.net>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@exigengroup.com>
Cc: Robert Raszuk <raszuk@cisco.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20010807233713.W18551@ns1.arch.bellsouth.net>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10108071828110.29904-100000@arch.exigengroup.com>; from Vadim Antonov on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 06:35:12PM -0700
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On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 06:35:12PM -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote:
[..]
> I think the _best_ way for an operator to earn money is called "customer
> retention". No implementation costs, little operational costs; a cash
> cow. In my opinion, the best way to keep customers is not to offer new
> features on a flaky network, but to have network to be truly dependable.
[..]
Ideally, customers will never ask for anything new, nobody will ever invent a
better mousetrap, nobody will ever come up with a more efficient way of doing
something. I think that's called paradise.
This isn't about chasing a reality that doesn't exist. It's about managing
the risk of evolving an infrastructure. And it is possible to evolve the
network while maintaining stability.
Quite frankly, I don't see what this has to do with 2547(bis) architectural
viability anymore.
--
Christian Kuhtz <ck@arch.bellsouth.net> -wk, <ck@gnu.org> -hm
Sr. Architect, Engineering & Architecture, BellSouth.net, Atlanta, GA, U.S.
"I speak for myself only."
