BCP for multisite multihoming

[Niels Bakker]

* cgbraschi at gmail.com (Carlos Garcia Braschi) [Sat 21 Jul 2007, 16:18 CEST]:
> I'm not sure if this has been proposed already, but what if we did 
> geographic addressing but assigned the addresses to 
> interconnect/peering points? (requiring that they be used to cover the 
> region the IX is in, and that among all the peering partners manage to 
> exchange locally the un-aggregated routing tables).
>
> Those would act as LIR / RIR for all ISPs connected to them and would 
> have incentive to promote the idea... as it promotes fidelity of their 
> peering customers and gives them more service.

Would the IX then have to serve as transit provider too?  I think 
that'll be a change of business model for 100% of the present IXes.


	-- Niels.