Re: Proper authentication model

[Daniel Golding <dgolding () burtongroup com>]

On 1/12/05 12:05 PM, "Joe Abley" <jabley () isc org> wrote:

> On 12 Jan 2005, at 11:53, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
>
> > > You mean you'd *request* a different path from different providers.
> >
> > Provisioning a circuit from two different ^providers^, other than
> > your OC3 provider.
>
> I realise that's what you meant.
>
> My point was that competing, differently-named and
> organisationally-separate suppliers of network services frequently use
> common suppliers for metro fibre, long-haul transport, building access,
> etc. Just because you buy different services from different providers
> doesn't mean there will be no common points of failure.
>
>
> Joe
Fate sharing is bad. The only way to be sure you aren't fate sharing is to
request GIS data from the carriers. And even that could be wrong...

- Dan
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