Re: comments on draft-py-multi6-gapi-00.txt

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Pekka Savola wrote:

> > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Pekka Savola wrote:
> > > What is more troublesome is that the IXP business model must be so that it
> > > has upstream connectivity, and advertises the aggregate to the Internet.

> > What are you talking about???

> Who will advertise the aggregate for e.g. a country if not the IXP?  Why
> would any ISP do it an attract traffic it gets zero payment for?

Excellent point. From the draft: "Note that this
behavior is completely hidden from the peer: the aggregates are only
used within the local network, they are not announced to peers. To avoid
confusion with regular provider aggregatable routes, the term "pilot
routes" will be used for this type of private aggregates."

Simply reading the draft will clear up most (all?) of this confusion.
It's 10 pages, so this should be doable:

http://www.muada.com/drafts/draft-van-beijnum-multi6-isp-int-aggr-00.txt

(Note that the term IX doesn't even appear in the draft.)