Re: Ahoy, SLA boffins!

2009-07-30 Thread Matthew Petach
On 7/29/09, William Herrin wrote: > Perhaps you miss my point: what the ISP is offering to pay me as a > result of a failure to deliver adequate service is so much less than > my loss for the same as to render the payment meaningless. I'm gonna > terminate the contract for nonperformance and h

RE: Ahoy, SLA boffins!

2009-07-30 Thread Leigh Porter
d Off-topic Gripes Subject: Re: Ahoy, SLA boffins! JC Dill wrote: > William Herrin wrote: >> The SLA's I've looked at promise me that if their service is hard >> down for a week (with no ambiguity whatsoever) they'll credit my bill >> for upwards of 2% of th

Re: Ahoy, SLA boffins!

2009-07-30 Thread JC Dill
Stephen Sprunk wrote: Read your contract closely and you'll find that, except for an explicit SLA clause (which will cost you extra), they make no guarantee that the circuit will work at all and you'll still owe them money. I am not a lawyer. However, over the years many lawyers have told me

Re: Ahoy, SLA boffins!

2009-07-29 Thread Stephen Sprunk
JC Dill wrote: > William Herrin wrote: >> The SLA's I've looked at promise me that if their service is hard >> down for a week (with no ambiguity whatsoever) they'll credit my bill >> for upwards of 2% of the $50k/year or so I spend on the Internet >> connection for my mutli-million dollar online s

Re: Ahoy, SLA boffins!

2009-07-29 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:19 PM, JC Dill wrote: > William Herrin wrote: >> The SLA's I've looked at promise me that if their service is hard down >> for a week (with no ambiguity whatsoever) they'll credit my bill for >> upwards of 2% of the $50k/year or so I spend on the Internet >> connection for

Re: Ahoy, SLA boffins!

2009-07-29 Thread JC Dill
William Herrin wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote: Am I over-thinking this? The SLA's I've looked at promise me that if their service is hard down for a week (with no ambiguity whatsoever) they'll credit my bill for upwards of 2% of the $50k/year or so I spend

Re: Ahoy, SLA boffins!

2009-07-29 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote: > Am I over-thinking this? The SLA's I've looked at promise me that if their service is hard down for a week (with no ambiguity whatsoever) they'll credit my bill for upwards of 2% of the $50k/year or so I spend on the Internet connection for

RE: Ahoy, SLA boffins!

2009-07-29 Thread Holmes,David A
cock [mailto:wo...@pch.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 9:34 PM To: nanog Subject: Ahoy, SLA boffins! So I've embarked on the no-doubt-futile task of trying to interpret SLAs as empirically-verifiable technical specifications, rather than as marketing blather. And there's something that

Re: Ahoy, SLA boffins!

2009-07-29 Thread Net
Aawaw On 7/29/09, Bill Woodcock wrote: > > So I've embarked on the no-doubt-futile task of trying to interpret > SLAs as empirically-verifiable technical specifications, rather than > as marketing blather. And there's something that I'm finding > particularly puzzling: > > In most SLAs, there se

Re: Ahoy, SLA boffins!

2009-07-29 Thread Michael Dillon
> Now, having said all that, and having been one of the people who've > attempted to communicate sane, rational, technical ideas to marketing > and legal the chance that anything sane made it in the actual contract > is, well, nil. I disagree. If someone takes the trouble to publish a technical d

Re: Ahoy, SLA boffins!

2009-07-29 Thread Leo Bicknell
I think the desired goal here is to separate the access SLA from the backbone SLA. That is, consider a simple picture: Network Cloud--Provider Edge Router-Local Loop-Customer Router Network availability is the % of the time the customer router and provider edge router can communica

RE: Ahoy, SLA boffins!

2009-07-29 Thread Andreas, Rich
"Available" yet sustaining a loss rate which renders it inoperable? Rich -Original Message- From: Bill Woodcock [mailto:wo...@pch.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 12:34 AM To: nanog Subject: Ahoy, SLA boffins! So I've embarked on the no-doubt-futile task of trying to inte

Re: Ahoy, SLA boffins!

2009-07-29 Thread Michael Dillon
> Am I over-thinking this? Yes, I think so. Often a large component of an SLA is related to the cost of compliance versus the cost of the penalty imposed. If it is cheaper to pay the occasional penalty, rather than construct the network to meet the SLA, then the network operator will often make a

Re: Ahoy, SLA boffins!

2009-07-28 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 29, 2009, at 12:34 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote: So I've embarked on the no-doubt-futile task of trying to interpret SLAs as empirically-verifiable technical specifications, rather than as marketing blather. And there's something that I'm finding particularly puzzling: In most SLAs, th

Ahoy, SLA boffins!

2009-07-28 Thread Bill Woodcock
So I've embarked on the no-doubt-futile task of trying to interpret SLAs as empirically-verifiable technical specifications, rather than as marketing blather. And there's something that I'm finding particularly puzzling: In most SLAs, there seem to be two separate guarantees proffered: o