On Dec 19, 2009, at 11:02 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote: > I don't think this idea is coming from people who don't understand the > Internet or its current economic models. I think they understand it all too > well. I think this is a thoroughly bad idea that really should be stopped > dead in its tracks, both for policy reasons and -- see rgm's comments -- > technical ones. (Here's another amusing thought. Imagine that a charging > rate announcement is denominated in Elbonian zorkmids. Do you want to > download foreign exchange tables into your BGP preferences configuration?)
FWIW, operators already use BGP attributes (primarily communities that denote intra-pop, on-net, off-net, trans-oceanic, SFI v. transit, etc..) today for distance-sensitive billing models. Between current flow-based telemetry data and BGP attributes such as communities, no new standards work required, methinks... -danny _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
