design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation

Mon Oct 24 18:24:28 UTC 2005

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:53:12 CDT, John Dupuy said:
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>>In fact, this is technically feasible right now with IPv4. Does anyone know 
>>of a pair of ISPs doing this?
> 
> 
> "technically feasible" and "business case reasonable" are two different things.
> 
> Under what conditions does this sort of cooperation with a competitor make sense?

When your customer demands it and is willing to either pay for it or 
stop paying you for anything.