[6436] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISPACs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Fri Dec 6 01:57:14 1996
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 22:49:56 -0800 (PST)
From: Tony Li <tli@jnx.com>
To: curtis@ans.net
CC: curtis@ans.net, nanog@merit.edu, cidrd@iepg.org, metro@nlanr.net
In-reply-to: <199612060538.AAA18101@brookfield.ans.net> (message from Curtis
Villamizar on Fri, 06 Dec 1996 00:38:39 -0500)
I think that putting together RFCs that propose that ISDs pursue
certain legal and financial arrangements is well outside the scope of
the operations area and the IETF for that matter. I don't see this as
an allocation issue or a technical issue wrt policy routing. As is
applies to operating a small provider and a potential means to
cooperate with other small providers by forming some sort of
consortium it maybe could be considered an operations area item. I
think what you have here is out of scope.
Curtis,
I think you miss the point. The goal is to solve technical problems
(aggregation, renumbering). The side effects are legal and financial and
we get blasted if we _don't_ discuss them. Years of CIDR bashing has made
us, uh, somewhat sensitive to this. So this time, we're trying to discuss
those issues up front.
Tony
