David, That certainly could have an impact, since I imagine that corporations that large are purchasing nice big (expensive) connections. Having said that the cases I am familiar with were all dealt with at the technical level and a "business" rep wasn't involved. The BGP teams at the various providers tend to have a strong respect (much more so than their business leadership) for the RIRs, RFCs, and the various informal practices we've all dealt with that keep the Internet moving properly. On 2/3/2011 3:59 PM, david raistrick wrote:
On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Scott Helms wrote:
My 2 cents, in the few cases that we've been involved with that dealt with reclaiming space the backbone providers have universally followed what is in
If that legacy block holder were, well, one of the legacy block holders, would you as a backbone provider reject IBM or ATT or HP or Apple, etc?
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