BCP for multisite multihoming

[Roger Jorgensen]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, John Payne wrote:
> On Jul 23, 2007, at 10:33 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch at muada.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> On 21-jul-2007, at 10:27, John Payne wrote:
>> 
>>> Geo addressing sounds interesting on the surface, but every proposal seems 
>>> to require a new economic model. I find it difficult to believe that will 
>>> happen anytime soon.
>> 
>> As the saying goes, there are many ways to skin a cat. If you hand over the 
>> packets with destinations in a certain region to an entity that handles 
>> that region, such as an internet exchange, then you're indeed using a 
>> different economical model than we use today.
>> 
>> But you can also do all the geo stuff in your own network. For instance, if 
>> you have a world wide network, you could split the world into 10 pieces and 
>> handle routing for each of those regions only within the region. The other 
>> regions then use an aggregate to get the packets to the right region. You 
>> would of course have to peer with other networks within these regions or 
>> break aggregation. But then, if you have a world wide network you're almost 
>> certainly peering in more than 10 places as it is anyway.
>
> Yes... But I'm probably also very selective who I peer with at those 10 
> locations. Under the geo model, I have to pretty much peer with everyone, 
> everywhere.

think you missed that part that the netblock in use in that region can 
optional be aggretated to one prefix which you get from a "transit" 
provider for that region somehow...

there are no must, just use your imagination and stop getting stuck in the 
regular way of thinking of internet.



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