Let us all bend over, apply the Vaseline...

[Jon Lewis]

On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Michael Dillon wrote:

> Any ISP that can afford a multihoming-capable router and 
> two upstream Internet connections should have no problems with 
> $2500/year for their portable address space. As you point out, it's a mere
> drop in the bucket, 30 cents per year per host address.

Are you sure of that?  Do you run an ISP trying to scrape together the
money to multihome?  Do you sit around at night wondering if it's worth
trying to hack together a BGP router with a P100 and ET cards or just wait
until you can afford a 4500M or better?

> Most ISP's will not be multihoming, therefore will not need
> portable address space and therefore, most ISPs will not be paying this

Most ISP's in what time period?  I personally think that if the telco's
and other giants ever get serious about providing internet service with
clues, many (but certainly not all) smaller ISP's will be unable to
compete.  Those that do stay in business will require the reliability of a
multihomedmed internet connection.


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