[26126] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verio Decides what parts of the internet to drop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Cooper)
Sun Dec 5 14:55:10 1999
From: Martin Cooper <mjc@cooper.org.uk>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: smd@clock.org
Message-Id: <E11uhjM-0006h4-00@nmg4.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 19:54:00 +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sean Doran <smd@clock.org> wrote:
> It doesn't need to be equitable and fair to all; the fact is that
> I consider my routing table slots to be a scarce resource, and
> I will conserve that resource. Filtering is one approach; a step
> towards your approach is relaxing filters for people willing to
> pay me money to do so.
This is the reality. The Internet is no longer an academic/
research network, and the sooner people accept that money talks
(and bullsh*t walks) in a commercial context, the sooner an
equitable mechanism for guaranteeing reachability to specific
networks will become established.
> People with hardcore reasons for using a too-long prefix will
> probably be willing to pay a fee to an agent able to broker
> cheapest-possible access to the routing slots in the networks
> that are smart enough to sell them.
I like this idea very much, because it makes a clear distinction
between transit and reachability services. For instance, I might
not want to use Sprint for transit, even though I want to have
reachability to its customers.
M.
