[28716] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CIDR Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Provo - Network Architect)
Sun May 14 09:57:03 2000
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 09:55:03 -0400
From: Joe Provo - Network Architect <joe.provo@rcn.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <20000514032845.24530746C@shadowfax>; from ww@shadowfax.styx.org on Sat, May 13, 2000 at 11:28:42PM -0400
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On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 11:28:42PM -0400, ww@shadowfax.styx.org wrote:
[snip]
> A small group if service providers in the same geographical area
> jointly apply for a good sized block of address space, say a /18. They
> also jointly apply for an ASN from which this address space will be
> advertised (they could just as well each advertise it from within
> their own AS, but some people don't like seeing inconsistent ASs in
> the global BGP tables). When they get a customer that may only need a
> /24 that wants to be multi-homed, they suggest that they get a feed
> from one of the other providers in the group.
[snip]
Something about those who do not study history applies here... Tony Li
had a draft in 1996 for an ISPAC (ISP Address Coalition). Seek ye the
CIDRd archives; I'm sure there's still a copy of draft-li-ispac-??.txt
out there somewhere. My memory's faulty, but I don't recall it going
past 00 into the light of day.
Cheers,
Joe
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