[86064] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Ghali)
Fri Oct 21 14:34:24 2005
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:33:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matt Ghali <matt@snark.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <17241.4273.509562.714878@roam.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Randy Bush wrote:
the internet model is to expect and route around failure.
randy
That precludes agreement on a definition of "failure". In recent
weeks we have once again learned that a large fuzzy fringe around
any sort of 100% consensus makes life interesting.
For instance; was the withdrawal of certain routes from your BGP
sessions a "failure" for you? Was it for superwebhostingforfree.com,
who relies on a single provider for transit?
matto
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