[855] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: links on the blink (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Zeeff)
Sat Nov 4 13:15:10 1995
From: jon@branch.com (Jon Zeeff)
To: mn@tremere.ios.com (Mike)
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 13:05:18 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nathan@netrail.net, hwb@upeksa.sdsc.edu, nanog@merit.edu,
D.Mills@cs.ucl.ac.uk
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9511040918.A2267-0100000@tremere.ios.com> from "Mike" at Nov 4, 95 10:04:49 am
> There is no way to talk about end to end connectivity quality assurance.
> The understanding must be that a provider can ony control the own
> network. How traffic is routed outside is mostly uncontrollable, because
You say you can control your own network, but I suspect much of it is
based on telco supplied lines where you don't directly control the
reliability. This is why companies have contracts. Within certain
parameters (and for a price), they allow you to control the actions of
other companies (and their networks).
