[89476] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Final report: national diversity assurance initiative
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Coluccio)
Tue Mar 21 15:24:24 2006
From: Frank Coluccio <frank@dticonsulting.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: frank@dticonsulting.com
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:23:57 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
It may be ridiculous and incredible, as you suggest, but, in an ironic way =
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also opens the door to a discussion on nationalizing the 'Net's backbone=0D
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Christian Kuhtz <christian@kuhtz.com> wrote:=0D
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"Due to the cost structures for these projects, the=0D
telecommunications carriers believe that funding for the scoping=0D
effort and the implementation of an automated solution would need to=0D
come from the Federal government or some other external source prior=0D
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.. and not afraid to ask for handouts either to fix their own=0D
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In a word: ridiculous, and flat out incredible.=0D
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On Mar 21, 2006, at 2:17 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:=0D
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> ATIS has issued its final reports about its circuit national=0D
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> assurance initiative.=0D
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> "The NDAI report confirmed our suspicions that diversity=0D
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> not for the meek," Malphrus added. "It is expensive and requires=0D
> commitment by the customer to work closely with carriers in=0D
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> due diligence. Until the problem is solved, circuit route diversity=0D
> should not be promoted as a general customer best practice."=0D
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> Press release:=0D
> http://www.atis.org/PRESS/pressreleases2006/031506.htm=0D
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> Report:=0D
> http://www.atis.org/ndai/=0D
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