[66736] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Outbound Route Optimization
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom (UnitedLayer))
Thu Jan 22 05:43:52 2004
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 02:43:15 -0800 (PST)
From: "Tom (UnitedLayer)" <tom@unitedlayer.com>
To: "Patrick W.Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <A912EB6C-4CBF-11D8-A138-000A9578BB58@ianai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Patrick W.Gilmore wrote:
> In any case, no matter how many resources or black boxes you have, you
> cannot guarantee good performance on the 'Net. Too many people
> involved over which you have no control. Even if you had control, BGP
> is not the right tool to exert such control in all cases.
Even more reason for people to buy the Sugar Mountain RouteMaster5000.
No matter how good the claims are, you still end up with humans in the mix
dictating "policy" of some sort over packets.
