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doleary@juniper.net ("dave o'leary") writes:
> 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.
as in, "i'm sorry, but there's no word for ``outage'' in our language." (feh.)
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Paul Vixie <vixie@mibh.net>
SVP for Internet Services, MFNX
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