[ppml] Provider Independence???

[bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 08:21:49AM +0100, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote:
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> On 2004-12-07, at 19.05, Owen DeLong wrote:
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> > 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.
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> Is anyone still actually proposing geo based addressing (short of the 
> ITU-T) ?
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> - - kurtis -
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	sure ...  like exchange points.

--bill