Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
George Herbert gherbert at crl.com
Tue Jan 30 20:28:28 CET 1996
I still do not see why you insist this is providing free transit. If you're a backbone and connected into the area, within your network you advertise the /8 outside the area and the details within the area. If you're a backbone and not connected into the area, people can advertise the /8 to you and provide transit, or not, per existing peering and transit agreements. If you're a small provider within the area, you can talk to everyone else in the area and to the customers of backbones which come into the area. If you're a small provider outside the area, you probably buy transit to the area from your backbone along with transit to everywhere else. Everyone would probably want to special-case the block in router filters to make sure that they weren't being unintentionally used for transit by people who aren't supposed to use that route, but the upside is that those faraway routers carry one instead of hundreds or however many routes. -george
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