NANOG/IEPG/ISOC's current role

Wed Apr 3 02:54:27 UTC 1996

At 07:30 PM 4/2/96 -0800, Michael Dillon wrote:

>> >Hmmm.... ISP has T1 to SPRINT, wants to switch to MCI, SPRINT says, OK
>> >you have a choice, either renumber or pay us to route your traffic to MCI 
>> >via a private exchange point so we don't have to knock holes in our 
>> >aggregate. That way you can use SPRINT's addresses and MCI's T1, but for 
>> >a fee.

>> 
>> And the global routing table grows.
>
>If this is done with a private two-party exchange point, then can't it 
>also be done without any change in the global routing table?
>

I'm not sure this is practical.

In any event, this why people have been bitching about people punching holes
in large CIDR blocks.

- paul