On Tue, 30 Jan 1996, Andrew Partan wrote:
I suppose that if you find a set of companies that are all willing to be part of the consortium & just part of the consortium, then you could do addressing for this consortium as a whole. Hey! I think that we just invented provider (consortium) based addressing again.
Depends on your definition of provider. I'm just saying that there appears to be room for another tier of provider in between the local ISP's and the national/global NSP's. NAP's and exchange points are popping up all over the place these days; it is only a small extension of the exchange point concept to a business that provides city-wide backbones (or meshes). It won't work everywhere, but it will work in some places and it will help control the growth of routes and that is good. Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com