[ppml] [GLOBAL-V6] Re: Just say *NO* to PI space -- or how to make it less destructive

[Pekka Savola]

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Daniel Roesen wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:28:41 +0300, you wrote:
>> Larger end-sites already have 10-20k+ annual budget (most have much,
>> much larger than that): caused by CAPEX by getting at least two
>> routers, OPEX by paying to multiple ISPs for fibers, transit, etc. and
>> salaries of network engineering staff.
>
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:44:42PM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
>> Remember, it's easy and cheap to have a multihoming setup with two DSL
>> lines...
>
> Could you finally make up your mind? First, your argument was that
> multihoming is expensive anyway, so shelling out another couple thousand
> of EUR/USD/whatever doesn't make a difference - just to keep the
> clueless bottom-feeders out. Now you say it's totally cheap to multihome.
>
> You're contradicting yourself.

You took the comments out of context.  The former describes that 
_real_ multihoming is expensive, the latter describes that you could 
obtain "multihoming" very easily.  The point is that we definitely 
shouldn't want to assign PI to the organizations in the latter 
category.

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Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
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