BCP for multisite multihoming

[Niels Bakker]

* iljitsch at muada.com (Iljitsch van Beijnum) [Wed 23 May 2007, 02:04 CEST]:
> UPS, Fedex, DHL and tons more of these guys all work with the same 
> geographical addressing. They also all use their own ideas about what's 
> the best routing in their own "networks". I got a package from DHL the 
> other day. They sent it from New York to Brussels to The Hague. Most 
> others send it through Amsterdam. They all get to decide all of this 
> for themselves. But the important point is, that the driver in New York 
> doesn't need a street map for The Hague for the package to arrive at my 
> door.

Guess what?  Geographical areas are already laid out along geographical 
areas.  The current Internet isn't.  Nor are IP addresses as heavy to 
carry elsewhere as cities are.


> What's SFI-Peering?

Settlement-free interconnection


[..]
> easier to simply look at http://arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us/ipv6mh/geov6.txt

Where this text says "Ideally" I say "Will never happen."  It sounds 
like an excellent scheme to keep startups away from established markets.


	-- Niels.