[1874] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [NIC-960209.1757] Routing Problem (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Heiliger)
Mon Feb 12 14:22:40 1996
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 10:38:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Jonathan Heiliger <loco@MFST.COM>
To: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199602121228.EAA18592@lint.cisco.com>
On Mon, 12 Feb 1996, Paul Ferguson wrote:
> Creating a consortium [akin to the NAP model] of small ISP's could
> easily resolve this problem, if all address space allocated to each
> ISP was contiguous and could be aggregated to a larger prefix.
>
> This has been suggested on numerous occasions.
It's not only been suggested, but I believe it's been somewhat
implemented. :) Back in September '94, Chris Alan (Electriciti) and a few
others came up with an idea called PCH -- Packet Clearing House.
The primary concept was, as you suggested, connect a bunch of small ISPs
together using shared resources and address space and peer with the "big
boyz." Unfortunately I haven't been involved with it lately, so hopefully
someone that has can share if it was successful or not.
-jh-
