[6bone] very drafty draft on 6bone routing mess

[Carlos Morgado]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 07:31:12PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Pekka Savola wrote:
> 
> > http://www.netcore.fi/pekkas/ietf/6bone-messv2.txt
> 
> I like it.  The only thing I'm missing is a way for sites to
> easily see if other sites are transit sites or not, ie. should
> you accept announced transit paths from a site or not ?
> 

That info can be gathered to some extent from whois. Apart from that
is commercial dealings.

> I suppose this can be taken care of by having routing peers
> talk to each other, but that might lead to the same lack of
> hierarchy the 6bone has today.
> 

Internet currently works with peers talking to each other. Also, you
either buy/negotiate transits or you do non-transit peering
so there's not a lot of ambiguity there :) 
Do you have other scenarios in mind ?

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