At 06:03 AM 8/6/01, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
Well, it sure looks like a "virtual" exchange to me.
Also looks like every private interconnect in the business-to-business world, where people have for years been asking for micro-allocations so that companies, who generally all use RFC 1918 addresses internally, can have SOME address space that's guaranteed uniquely numbered. I don't see a good reason why a confederation of ISPs/NSPs/etc. doing what is essentially a private, B2B network should be afforded any different treatment in this area than other businesses. Don't get me wrong, I think such allocations SHOULD be available from ARIN/RIPE/APNIC. I think it's a good thing that the networking community might finally understand why. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Senie dts@senie.com Amaranth Networks Inc. http://www.amaranth.com