Half correct. Everyone in the area carries full routes for the block.
Everyone outside the area can listen to only the /8 advertisement.
So these providers are providing the free transit to their
non-customers?
This does not make any business sense; it will not happen.
--asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan)
The proper solution is for all these companies to form a consortium. The
consortium would run the NAP and contract with multiple NSP's for
service. In that case, the NSP's are not providing transit to
non-customers because the consortium is the customer and every ISP who
joins the consortium gets multihoming reliability outside the region.
Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022
Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049
http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com