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Re: A proposal for reducing routes due to multihoming

  • From: Wayne Bouchard
  • Date: Tue Oct 29 14:10:38 1996 
> It's dead simple, really: Assign address blocks to pairs of providers.
> Both providers announce those blocks all the time, and assign addresses
> out of those blocks to customers who multihome between those two
> providers.

Subscriber A gets netblock from B who cooperates with C. Subscriber A
hates C and goes with D. What now? D has to advertize the route and C
has to stop. There goes the simplicity.

Competition.. gotta love it.

-Wayne

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