$quoted_author = "Scott Francis" ;
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> maybe there's a lot more overlap in shipping lanes and cable runs than
> I thought ...
In confined waters like the Suez, Red Sea et. al. there is a lot of overlap.
Which makes three cables cuts in that area during bad weather not such a
stretch of the imagi
$quoted_author = "Tom Vest" ;
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> Occasional rhetorical indulgences notwithstanding, I'm a pragmatist; an
> ever-rising upper limit that 99% of the population never ever notices is
> not much of a limit.
Sure it is. By knowing that no-one sharing the backhaul to the DSLAM at my
CO can afford t
$quoted_author = "Andy Davidson" ;
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> I'm really happy for you to sell me some transit as long as I can peer with
> you over MLP as well. Small commit. I agree to give you some of my
> prefixes over the paid session, but I'm going to put all of my routes and
> my customer's routes on the MLP
$quoted_author = "Randy Bush" ;
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>> Likely to result in assymetric routing as the customer prefers peering
>> routes over transit.
>
> omg! asymmetric routing on the internet! world at eleven, end of news
> predicted! :)
:)
This was basically setting up the next comment which was in relatio
$quoted_author = "Andy Davidson" ;
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> .. think about what happens when your customers' routes start appearing
> through your MLP session as well.
Standard practice would be to localpref customer routes over peering routes.
Likely to result in assymetric routing as the customer prefers peering
$quoted_author = "Joe Greco" ;
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> > >That's approximately correct. The true answer to the thought experiment
> > >is "address those problems, don't continue to blindly pay those costs and
> > >complain about how unique your problems are." Because the problems are
> > >neither unique nor new -
$quoted_author = "Joe Greco" ;
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> The real problem is the ability of users to adopt new killer apps. This
> eventually breaks down to issues of "how long is it reasonable for users
> to fund that shiny telco network at $50/line/month" and things like that,
> because rather than solving the prob
