-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yo Fred! On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Fred Baker wrote:
But yes, communities of a rational size and density could get an address block, the relevant ISPs could all advertise it into the backbone, and the ISPs could determine among themselves how to deliver traffic to the homes,
That assumes they can agree on how to get traffic to/from the world and the local IX. One of our local ISPs goes the cheap way and uses an overloaded (and therefore cost effective) link to a cheap tier 2. Another pays a premium price to have a lightly loaded link for it's customers. They will never agree on their business model, not should they have to. By forcing local ISPs to use the same routing prefix you force them to share the same routing strategy to the outside world. For semi-isolated communities this is a big issue. RGDS GARY - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Blvd, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 gem@rellim.com Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDVV4g8KZibdeR3qURAuhjAKCuvsd/ZmXebyyTNkfdQ3tBbQvdmACg1OnL RE0lRoxSElVzNaZFpdYcObA= =b5O1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----