[7936] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Big Squeeze
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Huddle)
Sun Mar 2 16:07:27 1997
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 16:03:38 -0600
To: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>, Craig Nordin <cnordin@vni.net>
From: Scott Huddle <huddle@mci.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, piara@apnic.net
At 10:00 AM 3/2/97 -0500, Paul Ferguson wrote:
>This is not to say that [ISPs] could be economical incentivized to
>accept routes for arbitrarily long prefixes.
I'll assert that if the costs of accepting a route announcement are
non-zero that this can only happen if there is a market for
announcements and a system of settlements between providers.
If the costs are zero, then why have the filters?
Redirected to piara.
-scott
