Re: 2006.06.05 NANOG-NOTES Peering BOF notes

[Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net>]

Nice notes - thanks.

* mpetach () netflight com (Matthew Petach) [Tue 06 Jun 2006, 12:52 CEST]:
[..]
> BillN: is there something else that could be given
> to the customer that would satisfy their question
> without revealing what
> Chuck: A lot of ISPs lie about their peerings; he
> runs AMSIX, people claim to have multiple gig to
> the peering exchange, he knows they don't really
> have that much.
> Patrick: but he can look at the peering stats on
> AMSIX--Chuck notes only members can.

Don't know a Chuck at AMS-IX, and he's wrong about port details 
being available only to existing members.  Click on any name at 
http://www.ams-ix.net/connected/ and get the full Monty.


> Patrick: customers ask how many gigs they can send
> to a provider; it's available headroom, so they
> ask their upstreams how much available headroom
> is left.  Most providers are having a lot of
> trouble getting the right capacities to the
> right networks.  The reason many don't
> answer is they don't like the answer they have
> to give.

As a transit provider you're doing something if for the majority of your 
time you are dealing with customer complaints about packet loss.


        -- Niels.