[88380] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo, Google, Microsoft contact?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Fri Feb 3 11:50:09 2006
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 16:47:52 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
In-reply-to: <1138984809.17120.253480421@webmail.messagingengine.com>
To: Per Heldal <heldal@eml.cc>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Per Heldal wrote:
>
> On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 22:39:59 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu said:
> > On the other hand, he *does* have a valid point. Why *do* we keep seeing
> > queries for the same networks?
>
> Because no-one has the balls to punish them in a way that really hurt
> their bottom line. It's mostly about companies where ops are not allowed
> to work on problems not related to paying customers. I bet their
> bean-counters would create accounts for misc-problems in record time if
> the top 10 transit networks would null-route their AS'es for a while.
uhm, where's the incentive in that for a 'tier-1' provider? most of the
folks mentioned are customers or peers, so there exists a contact path
already...
