[53581] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PAIX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Mon Nov 18 16:35:00 2002
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:29:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@exigengroup.com>
To: Jere Retzer <retzerj@ohsu.edu>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <sdd8bc66.055@gwsmtp.ohsu.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Jere Retzer wrote:
> Maybe it is a function of the origin and destination location + network.
> Since Portland is not a top 25 market our service has never been very
> good that's why we started an exchange
Yep, Intenet service quality is very uneven; and it does not seem to be an
easily quantifiable factor allowing consumers and businesses to select a
provider. So, all providers looking the same, they choose the
lowest-priced ones, thus forcing providers to go air transport way (i.e.
untimately destructive price wars).
With full understanding of political infeasibility of proposed, I think
that the best thing ISPs could do is to fund some independent company
dedicated to publishing comprehensive regional ISP quality information -
in a format allowing apple-to-apple comparison. Then they could justify
price spread by having facts to back them up.
--vadim
