[88439] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: So -- what did happen to Panix?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Mon Feb 6 02:11:53 2006
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 02:11:26 -0500
To: Nick Feamster <feamster@cc.gatech.edu>
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@renesys.com>
Cc: Josh Karlin <karlinjf@cs.unm.edu>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <43E6F53C.6000903@cc.gatech.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 02:05 AM 2/6/2006, Nick Feamster wrote:
>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
This is strictly a market-maker product, IMHO, which is different from a
transition or provisioning strategy. YMMV.
ISP's don't switch providers, typically, enterprises do. ISP's add, move,
and drop, so physical layer management is more important, believe it or not.
-M<
Martin Hannigan (c) 617-388-2663
Renesys Corporation (w) 617-395-8574
Member of the Technical Staff Network Operations
hannigan@renesys.com
