[86161] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Mon Oct 24 14:33:52 2005
In-Reply-To: <200510241821.j9OILOfx025937@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Cc: John Dupuy <jdupuy-list@socket.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:33:15 -0700
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 24-Oct-2005, at 11:21, 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?
As a customer, I would prefer to multi-home between ISPs who rarely
talk to each other rather than those who are in collusion. From a
technical perspective I want the operator-induced failures in each
ISP to be as independent as possible; from the business perspective I
want them both to fight for my money.
Joe
