On 01/31/00, dave o'leary <doleary@juniper.net> wrote:
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.
Those of us who are willing to communicate with each other should go ahead and write up a BCP, because the folks who're scared to admit that they're fallible won't follow it anyway. ---------========== J.D. Falk <jdfalk@cybernothing.org> =========--------- | "One computer is a problem. A computer network is a large problem. | | The internet is the world's largest problem." | | -- Douglas Warren | ----========== http://www.cybernothing.org/jdfalk/home.html ==========----