On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 11:44:36 +0000, Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com said:
The same is true for geographical aggregation. Geographical aggregation would require free transit, otherwise it is not compatible with the ISP's business models.
Geographical aggregation does not REQUIRE free transit.
[Does Fedex deliver goods to everybody in a region if only one customer in the region pays for their service?] An alternative way to keep things local would be through enforced confederations or similar construct, where partitipants would have to share a common external routing-policy and transit costs. I suspect that quite a few small providers would object to be forced to cooperate with all their competitors. In some places it may even be considered anti-competitive by law. There may however be places where such cooperation is appropriate, in which case RIR-policies should accomodate such a construct. ISP's who want such cooperation should probably establish an independent organisation that would act as the LIR for their region. There's nothing (exept possibly the 200 customer limit) in the current RIR-policy that prevents such a construct. //per -- Per Heldal heldal@eml.cc