Fwd: Re: Digital Island sponsors DoS attempt?

Fri Oct 26 19:30:02 UTC 2001

Gee, just having attended (part of) a NANOG meeting I would
have thought that talking amongst the operators about how
to work out connectivity quality issues amongst operators was
something that was already happening, sort of like the conversations
that go on about peering.

If DI, or Akamai, for example, or anybody else wants to worry about
connectivity to places not directly doing business with them, one
would like to think they'd talk about this in some relevant forum,
rather than jabbing a sharp stick in their neighbor's eye to see
if they say 'ouch'.

>   I don't know anything about what digital island is doing in
>   particular, but for a long time people have struggled with the issue
>   of how to offer better quality connectivity to sites off of their
>   network.
>
>   The communal nature of the Internet in times gone by provided
>   altruistic desires (usually) to provide good connectivity, but as
>   the quality becomes directly tied to cost, it is likely to suffer.
>
>   I suspect that DI, like many other companies, is actively monitoring
>   external sites to track, study, and hopefully improve connectivity
>   quality to them.