Vijay and all,
I agree Vijay. It seems obvious that Jim Bound here seems th have
a personal dispute with Ben and seems to be touting the ICANN
line here. Nothing unusual there though....
Vijay Gill wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Jim Bound wrote:
>
> > We don't have to answer to you or anyone else. Obviously people don't
> > care about your issue as I see no support for your proposed wall against
> > the aggregation draft. I think its in the decision of the chairs now.
>
> Incorrect. There has bave been questions about the proposed value of this
> I-D.
>
> > As far as no network operators care I called two ISP network operators
> > today and both will pilot jessica's proposal simply to see if
> > implementors can make it work. They like I feel no duty to respond to
> > "you". Got it!!!!
>
> A better metric would probably be asking some CUSTOMERS. Speaking as a
> customer, I'd just get two separate lines with two address blocks from
> each provider to ensure against _autonomous system wide isp failure_,
> before I'd trust an bit of data to this scheme. This is much more common
> than people seem to realize, having been in midst of several on a global
> scale. Including some interesting area wide failures TODAY (see thread on
> nanog).
>
> Wearing my provider hat, I _assure_ you we can barely get standard point
> to point circuits up amongst ourselves, much less co-ordinate setup of
> selective routing. Special casing does not scale.
>
> MBONE and 6BONE are set up as special cases with engineers working on
> them, but trying to get something on this scale for several thousand
> customers just isn't going to work.
>
> /vijay
>
> >
> > regards,
> > /jim
> >
>
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