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David,
Checking each prefix sounds like an awful lot of work, much better to bitbucket a entire countries prefixes if they collectively don't account for 0.nnn% of your traffic.
Except that prefixes aren't allocated by country. Prefixes are allocated to ISPs (mostly).
I guess i should have used a ;-). My point, If US operators only want to accept prefixes for 'free' from networks that account for a percentage of their traffic, your in a position to effectively blackhole much of the developing nations Internet. Is access to a countries Internet more or less important than access to a route with a different bit length or traffic level ? The size of prefix isn't necessarily the only basis for that prefixes value.
-drc
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On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:54:27 +1000, James Spenceley <jrs@comindico.com.au> said:
If US operators only want to accept prefixes for 'free' from networks that account for a percentage of their traffic, your in a position to effectively blackhole much of the developing nations Internet.
Is access to a countries Internet more or less important than access to a route with a different bit length or traffic level ?
I was going to ask which was more important to your users, access to cnn.com or access to the Afganistani national network, until I realized that probably only one of those actually has a prefix attached.... However, there *is* a point to this - it's probably more important to the *inhabitants* of the developing nation than to the already developed nation. There's some 200 or 300 countries in the world, of which there are probably only 40 or 50 that the US would notice a lack of connectivity to. On the other hand, the OTHER 150 to 250 countries would be HEAVILY impacted by a lack of connectivity. The implication of this is that if you're a provider of connectivity to content *consumers*, your customers probably dont care, and you probably don't either. On the other hand, if your customers are content *providers*, you should care - that's another 4 billion pairs of eyeballs that haven't gotten fed up with banner ads, pop-up ads, pop-under ads.... /Valdis (whos AS seems to be a provider not a consumer, based on traffic)
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