[86160] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Mon Oct 24 14:25:14 2005
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:24:28 -0400
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: John Dupuy <jdupuy-list@socket.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200510241821.j9OILOfx025937@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:53:12 CDT, John Dupuy said:
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>>In fact, this is technically feasible right now with IPv4. Does anyone know
>>of a pair of ISPs doing this?
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> "technically feasible" and "business case reasonable" are two different things.
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> Under what conditions does this sort of cooperation with a competitor make sense?
When your customer demands it and is willing to either pay for it or
stop paying you for anything.