Michael J. Oghia <mike.oghia@gmail.com> wrote:
    > These are such great examples as well. If it's not too much trouble for
    > you, would you be able to add this as a comment on the post itself so that
    > we can keep such good comments as yours centralised in one place?

I have reposted as you suggested.

What about this part:

    mcr> It would be nice if we had survey data to prove or disprove this belief.
    mcr> Perhaps RIPE along with some of the entities you mentioned might be able to
    mcr> do a confidential survey of ISPs in order to summarize the results?

Could RIPE do a survey of ISPs?
What is the lifespan of equipment, and what kind of support contracts are
they able to negotiate, particularly for their higher volume devices.

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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