<div dir="ltr">I don't sign for a circuit unless I have a KMZ of it in my possession, and while I suppose the provider could change the path after the fact, that's contractually a big no-no.<div><br></div><div>However, in some areas there just aren't enough options...but at least in those cases, if you see the KMZ, you know ahead of time what you're getting into.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 6:35 PM Jay R. Ashworth via Outages-discussion <<a href="mailto:outages-discussion@outages.org" target="_blank">outages-discussion@outages.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">----- Original Message -----<br>
> From: "James Sharp via Outages-discussion" <<a href="mailto:outages-discussion@outages.org" target="_blank">outages-discussion@outages.org</a>><br>
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> "We have diverse paths! See, all the fiber goes out this conduit and then off to<br>
> the diverse routes somewhere down the road!"<br>
<br>
It is effectively impossible these days to get, much less maintain, guaranteed<br>
physical diversity on uplink connections because *someone's* policy is not to<br>
release the data necessary to complete an audit of such paths to prove it.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
-- jra<br>
-- <br>
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