[138991] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Regional AS model
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey S. Young)
Thu Mar 24 19:51:21 2011
In-Reply-To: <7BDE4472-B1CC-420C-900C-A3D86E79A289@virtualized.org>
From: "Jeffrey S. Young" <young@jsyoung.net>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:50:19 +1100
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
While it's a very interesting read and it's always nice to know
what Danny is up to, the concept is a pretty extreme corner
case when you consider the original question. I took the original
question to be about global versus regional AS in a provider
backbone. =20
On the other hand if we'd had this capability years ago the notion
of a CDN based on anycasting would be viable in a multi-provider
environment. Maybe time to revive that idea?
jy
On 25/03/2011, at 8:45 AM, David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote:
> On Mar 24, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Jeffrey S. Young wrote:
>> Multiple AS, one per region, is about extracting maximum revenue from=20
>> your client base. In 2000 we had no technical reason to do it, I can't s=
ee
>> a technical reason to do it today. This is a layer 8/9 issue.
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> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mcpherson-unique-origin-as-00
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> Regards,
> -drc
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