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On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 10:50:58AM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > > Uh, huh, this is not quite the real world. I certainly would like to see a > > corporate marketing dude even considering that. If connectivity to cust-a > > (surfer) sucks then cust-b will take net-b by the throat and demand > > something to be done (in essence net-b will pay settlement to net-a or lose > > cust-b). > > Realizing that most large co-located websites are in facilities or > at network providers who have many OTHER large co-located websites, the > chances are great that cust-a will notice slow or no connectivity to MANY > websites. Who do you think he will blame? : > > a.) net-a > b.) net-b > c.) cust-b > > Of course net-a, he pays net-a $$ for connectivity, the customer will > not take many 'its on their side' answers from net-a, he will demand that net-a > fix his connectivity or he will leave. Yes, but when cust-a has bad connectivity to cust-b (and other co-located sites) I would see net-b receiving pressure from cust-b to improve connectivity to net-a. When customer is able to make demands to provider money has exchanged hands and provider has (should with a viable business model) means to pay settlement. -- [email protected] fishpool creations ltd http://www.kasvua.org/~toivotuo/ http://www.fishpool.fi/
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