[88723] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: a radical proposal (Re: protocols that don't meet the need...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Kaufman)
Wed Feb 15 18:38:07 2006
From: "Matthew Kaufman" <matthew@eeph.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:35:27 -0800
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0602151657340.31796@pop.ict1.everquick.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Edward B. DREGER:
> ...Of course not. Let SBC and Cox obtain a _joint_ ASN and
> _joint_ address space. Each provider announces the aggregate
> co-op space via the joint ASN as a downstream....
So this is a good proposal if I*(I-1)/2 < C where
C = number of ASNs issued to dual-homed customers
I = number of ASNs issued to "Transit Providers" said customers might select
from
(Note that it is bigger than that on the left if anyone, god forbid, has
*more* than two ISPs)
My guess is that even with all the consolidation in the industry, the left
side grows too quickly for this to be a good idea. (It'd probably be a great
way to finish using up the rest of V4 space, though)
And that discounts all the reasons why, short of a law forcing them to do
so, transit providers wouldn't want to do this anyway.
Matthew Kaufman
matthew@eeph.com
