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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: inter-NOC communications (was:Re: Definition of Congestion)
On 01/31/00, dave o'leary <[email protected]> wrote: > Attempts to "standardize" inter-NOC communication happened a couple of > times in the early 90's in the IETF, but it got too ugly, with too many > barriers (basically people not wanting to expose dirty laundry). I fear > that attempts to do so now when the providers are *really* competing with > each other (as opposed to back in the old daze when we were all > friends :-) will suffer the same fate, other than on a pairwise basis between > NOCs that cooperate well with each other anyway. Those of us who are willing to communicate with each other should go ahead and write up a BCP, because the folks who're scared to admit that they're fallible won't follow it anyway. ---------========== J.D. Falk <[email protected]> =========--------- | "One computer is a problem. A computer network is a large problem. | | The internet is the world's largest problem." | | -- Douglas Warren | ----========== http://www.cybernothing.org/jdfalk/home.html ==========----
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