NTAC Peering Working Group

[Darrell Newcomb <>]

On Nov 6, 2013, at 12:13 PM, Ryan Harden wrote:

>>> Regardless of how Net+ providers are connected, I suggest it’s not 
>>> correct, and potentially harmful, to depict TR-CPS as commodity 
>>> connectivity, unless that’s really how the service is managed now.
> 
> 
> Throwing my +1 in here.
> 
> I don't pretend to understand fully what may or may not happen, but I'd 
> hate to see a situation where we lose TR-CPS due to the carriers' recent 
> sensitivity to an R&E network competing with their business model.

Agreed on the depiction being a characterization that doesn't fit and could 
be harmful.

I'll key-in on "sensitivity" in the above context from Ryan.


I'll assert there's no more sensitivity than there had been 5 years ago or 
10-14 years ago.  Without the direct R&E vantage point myself 20 years ago, 
but having been leading some commercial services around that time-frame I 
can't even see a big shift in the long-term range of "sensitivity".

There is however a wide range of ways to observe/measure and depending on 
one's vantage point or observation of peak-pain you might perceive it in 
drastically different ways.  That doesn't make the perception of more painful 
pressure incorrect, but it also doesn't make it true that there's increased 
sensitivity on the whole (globally/nationally).