[26065] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verio Decides what parts of the internet to drop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Fri Dec 3 11:37:25 1999
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 11:33:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: Tony Li <tony1@home.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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Without trying to talk about this specific class B incident, what would
the "official" line be if a customer with their own class B designed to
announce half with one transit provider on the West Coast, and the other
half with another transit provider on the East Coast?
I don't think I have heard of customers being required to maintain
contiguous networks.
Deepak Jain
AiNET
On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Randy Bush wrote:
>
> > Wouldn't it be nice if backbones got around to simply charging for
> > annoucements and quit this arbitrary filtering?
>
> thanks geoff. :-)
>
> and how would charging for announcements have ameliorated the 129/8
> disaster? ahhh, when they tried to announce those 50k /24s, the check
> would have bounced!
>
> randy
>
>
