Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations

Tue Jan 30 19:36:59 UTC 1996

On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, Andrew Partan wrote:

> > Half correct.  Everyone in the area carries full routes for the block.
> > Everyone outside the area can listen to only the /8 advertisement.
> 
> So these providers are providing the free transit to their
> non-customers?
> 
> This does not make any business sense; it will not happen.

The proper solution is for all these companies to form a consortium. The 
consortium would run the NAP and contract with multiple NSP's for 
service. In that case, the NSP's are not providing transit to 
non-customers because the consortium is the customer and every ISP who 
joins the consortium gets multihoming reliability outside the region. 

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