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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: BGP announcements and small providers
Would it make you happier if the "big guys", say MCI, Sprint, and AGIS all agreed to force all their customers to renumber if they ever changed their own upstream providers? The "big guys" don't have an 'upstream provider' so their customers are never inconvenienced by any technical issues surrounding a change of their provider's upstream provider. That's life. There are advantages and disadvantages of small versus large providers. Small providers might change their upstreams. Small providers typically have poorer network monitoring. Large providers tend to be more vulnerable to routing instabilities. And on and on. These are not operational issues though, as far as I can tell. DS On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Karl Denninger wrote: > Or is this a "big guys don't have to" thing again? Because if it is, then > you're right back where you started. > > Karl Denninger ([email protected])| MCSNet - The Finest Internet Connectivity > http://www.mcs.net/~karl | T1's from $600 monthly to FULL DS-3 Service > | 99 Analog numbers, 77 ISDN, Web servers $75/mo > Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| Email to "[email protected]" WWW: http://www.mcs.net/ > Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | 2 FULL DS-3 Internet links; 400Mbps B/W Internal > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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