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Re: Verio Decides what parts of the internet to drop

  • From: Deepak Jain
  • Date: Fri Dec 03 11:37:17 1999


Without trying to talk about this specific class B incident, what would 
the "official" line be if a customer with their own class B designed to 
announce half with one transit provider on the West Coast, and the other 
half with another transit provider on the East Coast? 

I don't think I have heard of customers being required to maintain 
contiguous networks.

Deepak Jain
AiNET

On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Randy Bush wrote:

> 
> > Wouldn't it be nice if backbones got around to simply charging for
> > annoucements and quit this arbitrary filtering?
> 
> thanks geoff. :-)
> 
> and how would charging for announcements have ameliorated the 129/8
> disaster?  ahhh,  when they tried to announce those 50k /24s, the check
> would have bounced!  
> 
> randy
> 
> 





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