Re: provider-int geo aggr [Re: plug: thesis on site multihoming]

[Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 11:57:13AM +0200, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> 
> ...
> > 
> > >> It all boils down to the question: why would someone in Europe need
> > >> more specifics for people in the US, or vice versa?
> 
> Because of money, policy, and AUPs, traditionally. I doubt if this will
> go away, but it shouldn't be visible outside the sites concerned.

As a real example happening now(ish):

In the context of IPv6 experiments between Abliene and 6NET, we would
wish to have some experiments run over 6NET infrastructure and 6NET
partner (native) links to Abilene, while regular production IPv6 traffic
goes via GEANT (via its imminently native link to Abilene).  Thus we
would advertise a specific /64 (where the test equipment resides) to 
Abilene via the 6NET partner path, which would not be propogated outside 
Abilene.   So it's a private agreement between two networks which have 
a private link outside their regular production path.   

Tim