Re: DNS pulling BGP routes?

[Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>]

Mark Tinka wrote:

> Yes, but nobody cares about Layer 1 or Layer 2.

As you  wrote:

> You can't tell me that US$700 million being spent to build a > submarine cable around a continent is something to scoff 
> at.

you do care.

> Look, I'm not saying the ITU are bad

FYI, I'm not arguing especially for ITU. But, it do have some
regulatory influence for its Members.

> > FYI, IS-IS is part of OSI, which was jointly developed by ISO and
> > ITU, not by IETF at all.
>
> You might be forgetting that the IETF adapted IS-IS to IP networks:

Just as RIP was imported from XNS world, which does not deny
Xerox and ITU/ISO primarily contributed to develop the protocols.

> I have zero interest in being the profit police. Who am I tell anyone
> that they are earning too much?

Anti-trust agencies, of course.

> > Access networks are subject to regional monopoly unless unbundling 
> > is forced by regulatory bodies. Worse, with PON, such unbundling
> > is hard (not impossible, see
> > https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5616389).
>
> Submarine cables are usually either owned by one party, or a small
> club.

Submarine cables are for backbone.

That's why you must distinguish access and backbone.

                                                Masataka Ohta