[98935] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Market for diversity (was: Re: Cogent latency / congestion)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sat Aug 25 17:13:15 2007
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:12:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>
cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <AB0BD00E-D379-4C09-982B-382E27E0EA19@nosignal.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Andy Davidson wrote:
> Is it not possible to require that each of your suppliers provide over a
> specified path ? I'm planning a build-out that will require a diverse path
> between two points, and one supplier has named two routes, and promised that
> they wont change for the duration of the contract. Perhaps I am naive, but a
> promise should be a promise.
Just naive. Most people make assumptions about what was promised. If it
sounds too good to be true, it probably is. What the sales person
promises, the fine print takes away.
http://www.atis.org/ndai/ATIS_NDAI_Final_Report_2006.pdf
You will find out no one will sell to you if the contract requires some
things, and the alternatives are rather limited.
I would be more concerned about suppliers that promise things that aren't
possible than suppliers that decline to sell things that aren't possible.
Unrealastic buyers are just as much of a problem as non-performance by
sellers.
If anyone promises their network will never do down, they will never have
single paths, they are perfect; you should grab your wallet and run away.
