[1734] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Tue Jan 30 14:47:37 1996
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 11:36:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: Andrew Partan <asp@uunet.uu.net>
cc: George Herbert <gherbert@crl.com>, cidrd@iepg.org, iana@isi.edu,
iesg@isi.edu, local-ir@ripe.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <QQaaue02989.199601301911@rodan.UU.NET>
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.
Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022
Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049
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