Re: [RRG] End user network size [ [Q] draft-farinacci-lisp: IPv4 address depletion]

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 02:46:50PM +1200,
 Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 43 lines which said:

> I doubt if many of them are willing to pay a second ISP fee to
> obtain reliability;

I strongly disagree. Even for a very small company, paying three
different ISP is a small amount of money with current ADSL offers. It
is reasonable from a financial point of view. Three "low-cost" ISP are
much cheaper than only one "professionnal, SLA, etc" ISP and the
throughput is much more important.

Currently, there is no technical way to use these three ISP for
reliability (except may be SCTP, RFC 4960, for some uses), unless
there is a resident geek willing to play nice tricks with its FreeBSD
router.

But it is a technical problem (read: our responsability), not a
business issue. For most SOHO, having different "commodity" ISPs is
not different from going to different restaurants.

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