Re: Yahoo, Google, Microsoft contact?

["Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () verizonbusiness com>]

On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Per Heldal wrote:

> On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 22:39:59 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu said:
> > On the other hand, he *does* have a valid point.  Why *do* we keep seeing
> > queries for the same networks?
>
> Because no-one has the balls to punish them in a way that really hurt
> their bottom line. It's mostly about companies where ops are not allowed
> to work on problems not related to paying customers. I bet their
> bean-counters would create accounts for misc-problems in record time if
> the top 10 transit networks would null-route their AS'es for a while.

uhm, where's the incentive in that for a 'tier-1' provider? most of the
folks mentioned are customers or peers, so there exists a contact path
already...