RE: Geo pros and cons

["Tony Hain" <alh-ietf@tndh.net>]

Tony Li wrote:
> Marcelo,
> 
> Yes, there are regions where geo addressing makes sense.  
> Here in the SF bay area, where it's hard not to trip over all of 
> the fiber that we have lying around, it would play out 
> beautifully.  Theoretically.  
> 
> However, even in this location, where we have multiple 
> interconnect points, we can observe that the local ISPs do
> not choose to connect at all of the interconnects.  Some
> are at Fix-W, some at Equinix, some at PAIX, etc....  Even
> in this environment we are not yet at the point where geo 
> addressing would not require us to force particular links to 
> be installed.
> 

You miss the point that the ISPs with the customers demanding PI space
would be the ones that would need to connect to the designated geo
interconnects. This aligns the economics with those creating the need.

Tony