Re: design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

--On October 24, 2005 10:44:31 AM +0100 Michael.Dillon () btradianz com wrote:

> One way to do this is for two ISPs to band together
> in order that each ISP can sell half of a joint
> multihoming service. Each ISP would set aside a
> subset of their IP address space to be used by many
> such multihomed customers. Each ISP would announce
> the subset from their neighbor's space which means
> that there would be two new DFZ prefixes to cover
> many multihomed customers.
[snip...]

Except this completely disregards some customers concerns about having
provider independence and being able to change providers without
having a major financial disincentive to do so.  That _IS_ a real
business concern, no matter how much the IETF would like to pretend
it does not matter.

Owen



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