RE: Question about SLAs

2007-02-09 Thread Barry Shein
On February 9, 2007 at 08:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fox,Thomas) wrote: All good stuff (you can find the note) but I'd like to point out: > 3. Pay all of your bill except for the disputed portion. Include with every > payment a "SLA CREDIT REQUEST" form that you complete, detailing > the reasons

Re: Question about SLAs

2007-02-09 Thread Deepak Jain
Steve Rubin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does that mean you can take them to small claims court if they don't pay you the agreed SLA credits? --Michael Dillon Most contracts have an arbitration clause and in my experience small claims courts judges get confused by anything high-tech an

RE: Question about SLAs

2007-02-09 Thread Barry Shein
On February 9, 2007 at 09:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > An SLA is a contract. > > > > A contract is... a contract. > > Does that mean you can take them to small claims court if they don't pay > you the agreed SLA credits? Oh I'm certain you could if you wan

Re: Question about SLAs

2007-02-09 Thread Steve Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does that mean you can take them to small claims court if they don't pay > you the agreed SLA credits? > > --Michael Dillon > Most contracts have an arbitration clause and in my experience small claims courts judges get confused by anything high-tech and will use the

Re: Question about SLAs

2007-02-09 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 08:32:10AM -0500, Fox,Thomas wrote: ... > 3. Pay all of your bill except for the disputed portion. ... ... Along with all that good advice, this particular one may bite you back. Consult legal experts in the field. -- Joe Yao ---

Weekly Routing Table Report

2007-02-09 Thread Routing Analysis Role Account
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RE: Question about SLAs

2007-02-09 Thread Fox,Thomas
The other nice thing about small claims is that the judgment is just as "real" and enforceable as those from the big boy courts. About 10 or so years ago, we got into a dispute with a carrier where we co-lo'd some equipment. Went to small claims court, got a judgment of a few thousand dollars,

RE: Question about SLAs

2007-02-09 Thread michael.dillon
> Absolutely, so long as the amount in controversy > doesn't exceed the small claims limit in your jurisdiction. > If it does, off to regular court. And the nice thing about small claims court, if you meet the maximum limit of course, is that large companies often are lazy about dealing with the

RE: Question about SLAs

2007-02-09 Thread Fox,Thomas
Absolutely, so long as the amount in controversy doesn't exceed the small claims limit in your jurisdiction. If it does, off to regular court. > > An SLA is a contract. > > > > A contract is... a contract. > > Does that mean you can take them to small claims court if > they don't pay > you the

RE: Question about SLAs

2007-02-09 Thread Fox,Thomas
I have a couple of suggestions: 1. Document, document, document. We use our internal ticketing system to document carrier issues, and actually have a "customer" created for each of our circuits, so that the history is readily available on a circuit-by-circuit basis. 2. Call trouble tickets in f

The Cidr Report

2007-02-09 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri Feb 9 21:47:33 2007 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of an AS4637 (Reach) router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org/as4637 for a current version of this report. Recent Table Hist

BGP Update Report

2007-02-09 Thread cidr-report
BGP Update Report Interval: 26-Jan-07 -to- 08-Feb-07 (14 days) Observation Point: BGP Peering with AS4637 TOP 20 Unstable Origin AS Rank ASNUpds % Upds/PfxAS-Name 1 - AS701 35249 1.4% 36.3 -- UUNET - MCI Communications Services, Inc. d/b/a Verizon Busi

RE: Question about SLAs

2007-02-09 Thread michael.dillon
> An SLA is a contract. > > A contract is... a contract. Does that mean you can take them to small claims court if they don't pay you the agreed SLA credits? --Michael Dillon