On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Sean Donelan wrote:
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Nils Ketelsen wrote:
Servicelevels on the Internet suck. Thats the main reason not to use it for anything important. If my frame-connection fails I open my hand and my provider pays a lot until it works again. If "the Internet fails", I have no one I can squeeze the money out of.
That massively increases a FR-Providers motivation to have their network running. Penalties can never make up for a lost connection (no provider has enough cash at hand) but it is a nice PART (P=Provider).
Yeah right. That's why Worldcom's frame-relay network was "unusable" for about 10 days and took out part of the Chicago Board of Trade elecronic trading system.
and to be fair it might have actually been MCI's network at that time, with name changes though I'm losing track... not EVERYTHING is worldcom's fault :)