At 10:30 PM 12/13/95, cook@cookreport.com wrote: ...
So if they were supposed to use the services of the routing arbiter and appear to have renigged on this, what can anyone do?? Are they determined to make it painfully obvious for all to see that there are no enforcement teeth left at the NSF?
I think you are assuming too much at this point. [About contractually having to play with the RA.] You should address that question to Sprint, rather than the mailing list. I believe SprintLink has voiced their willingness to work with any tool that will help the Internet scale better, so long as it does not have adverse effects on their network. The last time I checked, the _biggest_ argument against using the RA was that alot of the data is incorrect. I have also heard a lot about work that has been done to clean up the RA. Is this still the biggest factor? -Jeff [mssg. from the nanog archive...] ================================================================================== | Knowing Sean for who he is, I'm fairly sure that no RADB or RS will ever be | suitable to him. In particular... On the contrary; I believe Peter Lothberg's proposals for an RS scheme are quite reasonable. I think his criticisms of the current RADB and RS models are pretty well known, and valid. I would point out one more thing though, and that's that at the Stockholm IETF I had a genial chat with a number of folks from MERIT and the RA Team in general, and suggested several ways that the RADB could be made incrementally useful. I hope that some good comes out of that conversation. I'll use any tool that will make my job easier, and help our operation and the Internet scale better. At the moment, though, the RADB does the opposite, and the RS has no value whatsoever. Sean. ===================================================================================
Of course sprint is running a nap too. i understand that their position is that the NAP is full. They have a BUNCH of people trying to get into the NAP who are complaining to me that they get no answqers from sprint as to when that will be possible.
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On Wed, 13 Dec 1995 Jeff.Ogden@um.cc.umich.edu wrote:
The large scale provider MichNet uses is MCI and they are required to cooperate with the RA and others. This is in their contract. I suspect that something similar might be in some of the other contracts of providers that provide service to networks that received funding from NSF for Interregional Connectivity. People might want to go read the fine print in their contracts. -Jeff Ogden Merit/MichNet