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RE: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Bulk)
Sun Sep 18 22:42:40 2011

From: "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk@iname.com>
To: "'Antonio Querubin'" <tony@lavanauts.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1109181614070.152@antonio-querubins-imac-g5-9.local>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 21:41:42 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: frnkblk@iname.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

I should have made myself more clear -- the policy amendment would make
clear that multihoming requires only one facilities-based connection and
that the other connections could be fulfilled via tunnels.  This may be
heresy for some.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Antonio Querubin [mailto:tony@lavanauts.org] 
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2011 9:27 PM
To: Frank Bulk
Cc: 'Leigh Porter'; 'Charles N Wyble'; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a
nationwide network

On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Frank Bulk wrote:

> I understand that tunneling meets the letter of the ARIN policy, but 
> I'll make the bold assumption that wasn't the spirit of the policy when 
> it was written.  Maybe the policy needs to be amended to clarify that.

I think this is a bad idea and I suspect would slow IPv6 deployment. 
Potential latency issues aside, is there a technical (not political) 
reason for doing so?

Antonio Querubin
e-mail:  tony@lavanauts.org
xmpp:  antonioquerubin@gmail.com



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