[11522] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
The whole CIX concept is flawed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yakov@watson.ibm.com)
Tue Apr 5 12:21:53 1994
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 94 09:07:40 EDT
From: yakov@watson.ibm.com
To: smd@cesium.clock.org, com-priv@psi.com
Cc: karl@mcs.com, avg@sprintlink.net
Ref: Your note of Tue, 5 Apr 1994 01:52:49 -0700
Sean,
>Given the lack of source-based routing, it is impossible now to set up
>a system whereby packets originating from MCSNet for some CIX routes
>go to the CIX, but packets originating from another of his
>reseller-customers get to those same routes by another path (like
>the NSFNet[*]).
It seems that the problem you described is quite similar to what
sometimes is referred to as an "indirect provider selection" problem.
The "indirect provider selection" problem can be solved with the
existing (destination-based) routing + IP tunneling (e.g. GRE). The
solution is outlined in the internet draft
draft-rekhter-select-providers-01.txt. Did you try to evaluate its
applicability to the problem you described ?
Yakov Rekhter
