On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:50:10PM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: [ snip ]
I'd really hate to picture the size of the boom that would happen if people WERE to exchange transit paths with each other on anything other than a rare and isolated basis.
Yup... Already happening a lot in IPv6 today, mostly from legacy 6bone operators who still refuse to clean up. Worse, such mutual full swapping / settlement-free transit exchange on large part is done over tunnels... (oh snap...) I can already go on and name at least five ASNs already that are doing this on large scale but I think I'll refrain from doing so on a public mailing list :D -J
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