North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: classful routes redux
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 09:33:30PM +0100, Henk Uijterwaal wrote: > At 11:57 07/11/2005, [email protected] wrote: > >> What about those that are assigned and used but not [currently] visible > >> on the public Internet [i.e., are on other internets]? > > > >Indeed! > > > >On Henk's slide number 5 he states: > > > >"Each AS wants to be able to send traffic to any other AS" > > > >This is NOT true. Many ASes explicitly do *NOT* > >want to send traffic to any other AS. They only want > >to send traffic to customers, vendors or business > >partners of some sort. > > You are right, but this was not the point I was trying to make on > this slide. > > The point I was trying to make is: A site is assigned an AS if it has a > network that is connected to the global Internet and wants to send > traffic somewhere. (If not, why bother to get an AS?) ... ... Because it is connected to a DIFFERENT internet and wants to send traffic somewhere. My point was that the slide makes it sound like it covers ALL ASNs [as does your text, above], and there is AT LEAST one other possibility. -- Joe Yao ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is not an official statement of OSIS Center policies.
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