[CII] [bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com: Re: terms and conditions]

[Dotzero]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:52 AM, John Osmon <josmon at rigozsaurus.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 08:17:09PM -0500, Dotzero wrote:
>> > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:36:55PM -0700, John Osmon wrote:
>> >>
>> >> "My network, my rules."  But I'll always prempt traffic on my net
>> >> for health/safety.  Kinda seems like my duty to the society that I live
>> >> within...
>>
>> What do you mean by "preempt". Are you carrying traffic from other
>> networks and destined for other networks or are you talking about
>> preventing traffic from your network going to 3rd party networks? What
>> is the general nature of traffic on your net?
>
> I'm not operating a network at the momment, but I have during other
> stages of my career.  Mostly, I've dealt with rurual areas, and
> have relied on other carriers for backhaul.  However, if, at any time,
> someone would have shown me that some form of health/safety were
> in need, I would have setup QOS to ensure that health/safety traffic
> had absolute priority over other traffic.
>
>> I deal with corporate networks and ecommerce sites. Our triage would
>> be to cut traffic when we are putting others at potential risk or if
>> there is significant potential risk to the integrity of our systems
>> and networks. While we have a lot of horsepower we would not be
>> considered CII by most people.
>
> I can see the logic of your reasoning.
>
> Let's consider a situation where you have a BGP connection to a local ISP
> in a region.  If that ISP had "critical" traffic that needed to get
> somewhere, and you had the ability to deliver it -- would you be willing
> to give that "critical" traffic priroity on your network if it caused
> congestion for you "normal" traffic?
>
> If you were to answer "yes," I would include you as CII for that region.
>

Colo in Tier1 data centers only.

> Hopefully, you'd have a different physical path from the ISP that had
> "critical" traffic.  However, even if you don't have path diversity,
> your equipment diversity might be enough to handle the "critical"
> information.
>

Handling critical information (I'm assuming you mean a decision to
host) would be a decision above my pay grade.