[77077] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Proper authentication model
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Golding)
Wed Jan 12 14:16:17 2005
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:14:36 -0500
From: Daniel Golding <dgolding@burtongroup.com>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>,
"Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <238A6242-64BC-11D9-BF97-000D93B24C7A@isc.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 1/12/05 12:05 PM, "Joe Abley" <jabley@isc.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 12 Jan 2005, at 11:53, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
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>>> 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
>
Fate sharing is bad. The only way to be sure you aren't fate sharing is to
request GIS data from the carriers. And even that could be wrong...
- Dan
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