21 Apr
2006
21 Apr
'06
10:13 p.m.
On the other hand, it make perfect sense for anyone who wants their PI space advertised to pay their upstreams for the privilege, since there is a real cost in doing so.
Mmmm, and how is this going to guarantee that the PI space is accepted by third party networks? I'm aware that the two things are separate, paying to have your prefixes accepted by an upstream, and expecting them to be globally routable. But how is the average Joe Schmoe customer going to feel if they pay a premium to have their PI prefixes "accepted" by their ISP's upstreams, when they're not accepted by anyone else? Not convinced, Nick