[ppml] Provider Independence???

[Kurt Erik Lindqvist]

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On 2004-12-07, at 19.05, Owen DeLong wrote:

> The fundamental flaw with the theory of geographical aggregation is 
> that
> it would need a form of provider transit love-fest to become feasible 
> that
> simply isn't the reality of today's market conditions.  If we had 
> instituted
> this while it was still NSFnet and there was still a central authority 
> that
> could drive such policies, it might have been possible.  Today, you 
> would
> need to get all the major providers in every region to agree to provide
> some form of transit for lots of people that aren't paying them to talk
> to lots of other people that aren't paying them.  I just don't see that
> as being likely to happen.

Is anyone still actually proposing geo based addressing (short of the 
ITU-T) ?

- - kurtis -

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