On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, Andrew Partan wrote:
Half correct. Everyone in the area carries full routes for the block. Everyone outside the area can listen to only the /8 advertisement.
So these providers are providing the free transit to their non-customers?
This does not make any business sense; it will not happen.
The proper solution is for all these companies to form a consortium. The consortium would run the NAP and contract with multiple NSP's for service. In that case, the NSP's are not providing transit to non-customers because the consortium is the customer and every ISP who joins the consortium gets multihoming reliability outside the region. Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com