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Re: Cogent move without renumbering
From: Paul Vixie <vixie () vix com>
Date: 07 Oct 2005 19:06:26 +0000
wsimpson () greendragon com (William Allen Simpson) writes:
I remember presenting a paper at IETF over a decade ago about assigning IP addresses to exchanges instead of carriers. That would allow rapid failover, and promote competition.
and i remember hearing you present this.
Therefore, I propose that we identify those ISPs moving from Level3 to Cogent that are also connected to an *IX. The IP block should be reassigned by the registry to the IX. We should encourage everybody else moving that requires a circuit change to connect to an IX where Cogent is present. That should help routing tables immensely!
IX's are not, alas, the center of the internet, no matter what anybody's marketing might say. the vast majority of traffic exchange is by private interconnect, which might be an IX crossconnect, but might just as likely be some kind of ISO-L1 or ISO-L2 link through a metro or telco or whatever. there is no justification for making an IX into an address allocator or address aggregator, unless it's an ISO-L3 IX with regulatory powers, which isn't the norm in most places around the world, and isn't likely to become such, even if it were uncontroversial, which it also isn't. -- Paul Vixie
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