[5886] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A proposal for reducing routes due to multihoming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wayne Bouchard)
Tue Oct 29 15:09:02 1996
From: Wayne Bouchard <web@typo.org>
To: alexis@panix.com (Alexis Rosen)
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 11:55:32 -0700 (MST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610291627.LAA20113@panix.com> from "Alexis Rosen" at Oct 29, 96 11:27:35 am
> It's dead simple, really: Assign address blocks to pairs of providers.
> Both providers announce those blocks all the time, and assign addresses
> out of those blocks to customers who multihome between those two
> providers.
Subscriber A gets netblock from B who cooperates with C. Subscriber A
hates C and goes with D. What now? D has to advertize the route and C
has to stop. There goes the simplicity.
Competition.. gotta love it.
-Wayne
