[88438] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: So -- what did happen to Panix?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Feamster)
Mon Feb 6 02:06:24 2006
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 02:05:32 -0500
From: Nick Feamster <feamster@cc.gatech.edu>
To: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@renesys.com>
Cc: Josh Karlin <karlinjf@cs.unm.edu>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.0.20060206012622.01a8b628@renesys.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Martin Hannigan wrote:
>
> [ SNIP ]
>
>
>> > If you are changing providers, which takes
>>> awhile anyway,
>>
>> That process seems to be getting quicker:
>> http://www.equinix.com/prod_serv/network/ed.htm
>
>
> NOT an ISP product.
Independent of ED, one should be cautious when designing routing
protocols based on logistical and business assumptions (e.g., switching
providers takes awhile, most business policies are vanilla peering, etc.).
These assumptions are certainly not fundamental, and they may not always
be true, regardless of what exists today.
-Nick
