[1229] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: technical details
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vince Fuller)
Tue Aug 27 17:59:09 1991
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 91 14:58:14 PDT
From: Vince Fuller <vaf@Valinor.Stanford.EDU>
To: wls@psi.com (William Schrader)
Cc: ittai@shemesh.ans.net, com-priv@uu.psi.com, lear@turbo.bio.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 27 Aug 91 16:32:25 -0400
Excerpting from:
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 91 16:32:25 -0400
From: wls@psi.com (William Schrader)
1. The CIX and the CIX Association are "scaleable", assuming Regionals
plan to stay in business, assuming the IXC's, BOCs, and foreign telcos
join the US domestic market (a fair set of assumptions). The CIX Assoc
has invited others to participate, including ANS.
This is an interesting statement. From a legal and political point of view,
this may be true. From the technical standpoint, however, the existance of
both CIX and ANS serves to exacerbate the scaling problems associated with IP
routing - with multiple external attachments, a mid-level may need to carry
the global routing database; with one attachement, it need only carry its
own routes plus a default route to the external location. Maybe IDPR and/or
Noel's new IP scheme will save us all in the end, but I'm expecting the worst
in the meantime...
--Vince
