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Re: Discussing, or not discussing, major business outages


From: I Am Not An Isp <patrick () ianai net>
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 12:23:57 -0800

At 11:22 AM 2/9/99 -0500, Ravi Pina wrote:

In a utopian world, the upstream of whoever had to close doors would
pickup the circuit keeping the affected customers "in business" and
extend them circuit offers wil the install waived or something.

What if it is the upstream who is closing the doors?

Besides, that's not always possible.  It is simple if we're talking about a
single-homed hosting house who is only late on their transit bill, but it
gets very complicated when multiple vendors, upstreams, utilities,
landlords, lease payments, contracts, employees, insurance, etc., etc. are
involved.

-r

TTFN,
patrick

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