Multihoming - Resilience or Independence

Gert meinte:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 04:07:24PM +0100, Stephen Burley wrote:
> > Er you can not reserve space so you can not do this and if you give them
> > enough space to garutee routing we are talking a /20 then that is LIR
space
> > size...hhmmm.
>
> Back into MIR land :-) - but I think the main problem with this proposal
> is "what happens if the ISPs in question stop liking each other and
> this breaks apart" - which would not be the first time.
>

Money is always the best string that things don't fail. E.g.: MIRs could be
organized/overseen by IXP. Each ISP wanting to contribute to MIR has to have
a contract with the organisation running the MIR. And high penalties
guarantee that the MIR is still there even "if the ISPs in question stop
liking each other".

Obviously the big advantage is that this model scales very well.


-- Arnold