[2409] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CIDR,Sprint and the Big Guys.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin W. Newton)
Fri Apr 5 15:03:36 1996
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 15:02:49 -0500
To: salo@msc.edu (Tim Salo)
From: "Justin W. Newton" <justin@erols.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 09:58 AM 4/5/96 -0600, you wrote:
>We hear a lot about dual-homed ISPs and ISPs who want to change their
>upstream providers. It would be very interesting to have some
>quantitative information about the size of these classes.
>
>(Or, are issues related to dual-homed ISPs and changes in upstream
>providers more theoretical than real?)
I have worked for 3 ISP's in the past several years. Of the three 2 peer at
the MAE (actually the connection for one of them is still sitting in
MaBell's in box). This is a prohibitively small sample to be useful though.
At most the number of ISP's dualhoming must be <= the number of assigned
ASN#'s. As for leaving their NSP, I am not sure that many are doing that.
Its hard as hell to do without killling your customers.
Justin Newton * You have to change just to stay
Internet Architect * caught up.
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