Randy writes:
New ISPs have sold multihoming to customers as a way to gain market
share against incumbents whenever they could
yup. and they get the money. but, since they neglected to put paying
the rest of us in the financial model, i presume they will excuse our
not spending our
In Randy Bush's presentation at the plenary, he refers to the
multi-homing customer grazing the commons by having a long prefix
route carried into the default free zone and thus consuming resources
in routers in lots of networks which are not paid for that work.
It's a powerful metaphor
New ISPs have sold multihoming to customers as a way to gain market
share against incumbents whenever they could
yup. and they get the money. but, since they neglected to put paying
the rest of us in the financial model, i presume they will excuse our
not spending our critical resources to
