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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>
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:53:12 CDT, John Dupuy said:
> 
> 
>>In fact, this is technically feasible right now with IPv4. Does anyone know 
>>of a pair of ISPs doing this?
> 
> 
> "technically feasible" and "business case reasonable" are two different things.
> 
> 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.

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