On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 11:28:42PM -0400, ww@shadowfax.styx.org wrote: [snip]
A small group if service providers in the same geographical area jointly apply for a good sized block of address space, say a /18. They also jointly apply for an ASN from which this address space will be advertised (they could just as well each advertise it from within their own AS, but some people don't like seeing inconsistent ASs in the global BGP tables). When they get a customer that may only need a /24 that wants to be multi-homed, they suggest that they get a feed from one of the other providers in the group. [snip]
Something about those who do not study history applies here... Tony Li had a draft in 1996 for an ISPAC (ISP Address Coalition). Seek ye the CIDRd archives; I'm sure there's still a copy of draft-li-ispac-??.txt out there somewhere. My memory's faulty, but I don't recall it going past 00 into the light of day. Cheers, Joe -- Joe Provo Voice 508.486.7471 Director, Internet Planning & Design Fax 508.229.2375 Network Deployment & Management, RCN <joe.provo@rcn.com>