[77062] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Proper authentication model
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Wed Jan 12 12:06:28 2005
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Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:05:19 -0500
To: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 12 Jan 2005, at 11:53, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
>> You mean you'd *request* a different path from different providers.
>
> Provisioning a circuit from two different ^providers^, other than
> your OC3 provider.
I realise that's what you meant.
My point was that competing, differently-named and
organisationally-separate suppliers of network services frequently use
common suppliers for metro fibre, long-haul transport, building access,
etc. Just because you buy different services from different providers
doesn't mean there will be no common points of failure.
Joe
