[26092] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verio Decides what parts of the internet to drop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sat Dec 4 17:48:27 1999
Date: 4 Dec 1999 14:44:06 -0800
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From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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On Fri, 03 December 1999, Tony Li wrote:
> I was not and am not suggesting that anyone stop all filtering. I am
> suggesting that a sane prefix settlement scheme would allow us to dispense
> with the filtering policies that are currently in place and would allow the
> backbone to globally distribute any prefix, regardless of prefix length, if
> only the originator has paid enough money and informed people first. You
> want to inject a /32? Go right ahead. Send your check to your provider
> and it can be made to happen.
Such a payment scheme has always existed. The provider with the most
agressive filtering policy has always announced many prefixes which they
wouldn't accept if the networks were customers of a different provider.
Just make your checks out to all the providers you want to reach, and
they'll each be happy to install a seperate circuit for your network.
It worked for tymnet, telenet and compuserve.
In today's Internet a difficult problem is figuring out if they are announcing
a /32 accidently, for a dumb reason or for a good reason. Because my upstream
provider is too dumb to aggregate isn't a good reason.
