Re: design of a real routing v. endpoint id seperation

[Joe Abley <jabley () isc org>]

On 24-Oct-2005, at 11:21, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:53:12 CDT, John Dupuy said:
>
> > In fact, this is technically feasible right now with IPv4. Does  
> > anyone know
> > of a pair of ISPs doing this?
>
> "technically feasible" and "business case reasonable" are two  
> different things.
>
> Under what conditions does this sort of cooperation with a  
> competitor make sense?

As a customer, I would prefer to multi-home between ISPs who rarely  
talk to each other rather than those who are in collusion. From a  
technical perspective I want the operator-induced failures in each  
ISP to be as independent as possible; from the business perspective I  
want them both to fight for my money.


Joe