With 15 POPs spread throughout the US and Europe, and more on the way, with exceedingly non-contiguous space obtained from 6 different upstreams, it would benefit ourselves as well as our many providers to have our own PI space.
I suspect the number of organizations who can claim "it would benefit ourselves as well as our many providers" will greatly exceed the number of available routing slots before IPv6 comes anywhere close to being significantly deployed.
So, how do we bring the operations reality and ivory tower approaches closer together? Elegant complexity causes operational nightmares all of its own. -- Christian Kuhtz, Sr. Network Architect Architecture, BellSouth.net <ck@arch.bellsouth.net> -wk, <ck@gnu.org> -hm Atlanta, GA "Speaking for myself only."