[84587] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Calling all NANOG'ers - idea for national hardware price quote registry
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Fri Sep 16 19:25:57 2005
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:25:27 -0400
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: "Warren Kumari" <Warren@kumari.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> > If need be I'll off shore it.
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> > Matt
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> >
> Fine, you can build it and off-shore it, but I suspect that=20
> is a case =20
> of "if you build it they will not come".
Robbing points from each other at the deal desk has 0
value to all of us. It also has 0 operational value.
Ultimately, the smaller guys would suffer as a result
anyhow. The more points beaten down at the top, the more
pressure to not discount at the higher margins.
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> I think that people have made it fairly clear that this is a bad =20
> idea, but I don't think that anyone is going to stop you building it.
> I am guessing that you will 1) get inflated prices because the =20
> people who are getting the really good discounts are going to be the =20
> ones with the most to lose personally and 2) lots of happy shiny =20
> letters from vendor's lawyers asking you for logs. Whether or=20
> not you =20
> have logs is largely irrelevant, you will still get the letters. I =20
> don't know about you, but I have better things to do than a: =20
> unnecessarily antagonize the same people that you presumable want to =20
> get a good discount from and b: collect subpoenas.
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> Warren.
> --
> "Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, =20
> and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." -- Terry Pratchett
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