Re: A tunneling proposal

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> I'm not even talking about economics, but just basic functionality and human
> nature: how are you going to convince someone stop doing something that works
> for them to help some greater good, that doesn't show obvious signs of
> needing help? "Global warming? Let me turn up the airco..."
>
> If there really is a limit above which global routing breaks down, we should
> implement some policies to prevent the number of routes from reaching this
> limit. This means forcing existing ASes to aggregate, and limiting the growth
> in the number of ASes. That way, SCTP-like solutions become more attractive.

How about "all the specifics you'd want to annouce are being filtered by
other parties in the Internet so your multihoming only works for 1% of
Internet users" ?

Could be rather effective if people stick to these prefix length
filters...

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Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
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