[40926] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy Routing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Sun Aug 26 01:19:45 2001
Message-Id: <200108260519.f7Q5J4b21549@foo-bar-baz.cc.vt.edu>
To: John Fraizer <nanog@Overkill.EnterZone.Net>
Cc: Jeff Cates <catesjl9394@yahoo.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 26 Aug 2001 00:39:40 EDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 01:19:04 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 00:39:40 EDT, John Fraizer said:
> I would be very upset if I were "Company X" and I found out that you were
> policy-routing my traffic to the "cheap" connection vs the best
> connection.
Given that there wasn't any indication that the "cheap" connection
was any less usable/reliable, I'd *expect* that the provider I was
signing up with would (as a sheer business matter) attempt to maximize
the difference between what I was paying and what transit was costing,
and as a result route me through th cheapest provider that met my SLA.
If I was a clever customer, I'd either phrase my SLA if I cared which
transit got used, or try to negotiate that some of the savings be
passed along to me ;)
/Valdis
