2007/5/23, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>:
On 2007-05-23 03:28, Sascha Lenz wrote:
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> ...even with arguments, you most likely won't get the people who DO
> filter on RIR boundaries to lower them.
> Just not possible, they are stubborn and not open to arguments ;-)
They are open to arguments accompanied by large amounts of money,
This is a business issue, not a technical or religious issue.
When there are financial incentives to relax the filters, it will
happen.
BTW the same is true of geographic addressing - as Iljitsch
says, it isn't hard technically. What has been lacking for the
last 15 years is a financial incentive.
I'm not sure if this has been proposed already, but what if we did
geographic addressing but assigned the addresses to
interconnect/peering points? (requiring that they be used to cover the
region the IX is in, and that among all the peering partners manage to
exchange locally the un-aggregated routing tables).
Those would act as LIR / RIR for all ISPs connected to them and would
have incentive to promote the idea... as it promotes fidelity of their
peering customers and gives them more service.