[47621] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ratios
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Tue May 7 20:42:46 2002
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 20:42:14 -0400
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
Cc: PETER JANSEN <peter.jansen@cw.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20020508004214.GW375@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0205080040200.10725-100000@staff.opaltelecom.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 12:43:39AM +0100, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> Richard,
> I believe you also missed
>
> must operate a US-wide OC48 network.
Personally I would go with "must operate a network with sufficient
capacity to support the traffic being exchanged". Unless I was selling
US-wide OC48s of course.
> must exchange at 4 locations over OC3 or above with at least 45Mb traffic
> per location
Not an entirely unreasonable goal. But then we come to bizaare ones like:
D. The applicant shall take steps to ensure that its routes are not
announced to Cable & Wireless from another network.
What exactly is this supposed to accomplish?
> and most friendly of all, you must supply a detailed network topology and
> current operational capacities.. why not ask for 5 year business plan and
> bank numbers too .. and how about next weeks lottery numbers?
I don't suppose they'd take too kindly to an ascii diagram which just
happens to resemble a middle finger, would they? :)
Oh BTW on the subject of peering, has anyone noticed that AOL has cut off
a large number of transit providers and reportedly a number of content
hoster peers (though I havn't seen this first-hand) in recent days. I
guess when you have the largest eyeball population your only remaining
goal is to have the largest content population too. Something to think
about.
--
Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)
