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On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:50:10PM -0500, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: [ snip ] > I'd really hate to picture the size of the boom that would happen if > people WERE to exchange transit paths with each other on anything other > than a rare and isolated basis. Yup... Already happening a lot in IPv6 today, mostly from legacy 6bone operators who still refuse to clean up. Worse, such mutual full swapping / settlement-free transit exchange on large part is done over tunnels... (oh snap...) I can already go on and name at least five ASNs already that are doing this on large scale but I think I'll refrain from doing so on a public mailing list :D -J > > -- > Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras > GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC) -- James Jun TowardEX Technologies, Inc. Technical Lead Boston IPv4/IPv6 Web Hosting, Colocation and [email protected] Network design/consulting & configuration services cell: 1(978)-394-2867 web: http://www.towardex.com , noc: www.twdx.net
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