And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

Tue Oct 18 20:42:03 UTC 2005

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Yo Fred!

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Fred Baker wrote:

> But yes, communities of a rational size and density could get an address
> block, the relevant ISPs could all advertise it into the backbone, and the
> ISPs could determine among themselves how to deliver traffic to the homes,

That assumes they can agree on how to get traffic to/from the world and
the local IX.  One of our local ISPs goes the cheap way and uses an
overloaded (and therefore cost effective) link to a cheap tier 2.  Another
pays a premium price to have a lightly loaded link for it's customers.

They will never agree on their business model, not should they have to.  By
forcing local ISPs to use the same routing prefix you force them to share
the same routing strategy to the outside world.  For semi-isolated
communities this is a big issue.

RGDS
GARY
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