20 Mar
2013
20 Mar
'13
1:30 p.m.
I appreciate everyones comments on this issue but I think you nay-sayers are going to lose. I think the future of the internet is distributed routing where the end points ultimately decide how their packets flow. I think joe 6-pack should in fact be able to be connected to as many providers as he wants, should be able to specify any mixture of connections from consumer dsl to carrier ethernet or beyond, and have the same level of service as multi-homed bgp speaking networks do today in terms of route diversity, fail-over and 'portability' (in terms of bringing your netblocks to another provider). Not a troll, just looking at the future here. Mike-