[92979] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Practical Common Practice for Collocation Access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@karoshi.com)
Mon Oct 23 16:58:25 2006
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:49:05 +0000
From: bmanning@karoshi.com
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0610231626250.11033@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 04:39:30PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
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> Is it enough of a problem, network operators would be interested in
> publishing some Practical Common Practices (I hesitate to call it a BCP)
> collocation facilities could follow for some common access control
> scenarios? Tenent access, pre-screened carrier, unscreened vendor, etc.
i can see the reg headline now... ISPs and BOFH's now pushing PCP!
> http://www.ncs.gov/nstac/reports/2005/Final%20TATF%20Report%2004-25-05.pdf
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> I wouldn't be surprised if most co-lo's don't actually have good reasons
> why they do some things, and if presented with a reasonable industry
> agreed practice, would adopt it.
colo's live/die based on paying customers. getting input from
customers is not a bad idea. tempering customer feedback w/
legal and liability concerns is always a trick.
--bill
