Re: Verio Decides what parts of the internet to drop

[Deepak Jain <deepak () ai net>]

Without trying to talk about this specific class B incident, what would 
the "official" line be if a customer with their own class B designed to 
announce half with one transit provider on the West Coast, and the other 
half with another transit provider on the East Coast? 

I don't think I have heard of customers being required to maintain 
contiguous networks.

Deepak Jain
AiNET

On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Randy Bush wrote:

> > Wouldn't it be nice if backbones got around to simply charging for
> > annoucements and quit this arbitrary filtering?
>
> thanks geoff. :-)
>
> and how would charging for announcements have ameliorated the 129/8
> disaster?  ahhh,  when they tried to announce those 50k /24s, the check
> would have bounced!  
>
> randy