Re: [ipv6-wg] Re: [address-policy-wg] Re: 200 customer requirements for IPv6

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:47:24PM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 7-dec-2005, at 13:12, Per Heldal wrote:
> 
> >>Geographical aggregation does not REQUIRE free transit.
> 
> >[Does Fedex deliver goods to everybody in a region if only one  
> >customer
> >in the region pays for their service?]
> 
> That's not the right analogy. The right analogy is: does a Fedex  
> truck driver in New York have a street map for Berlin? Answer: no.  
> The NY Fedex driver knows that packages for Berlin should go to  
> Europe. More specific routing information becomes available as the  
> package gets closer to its destination.
> 
> So Fedex does aggregate on geography, but only _internally_. Fedex as  
> a whole still has all the detailed information for the entire world.  
> (Well, the parts they serve at least.)

	Interior Gateway Protocols...  kind of like OSPFv3 for v6?

--bill

> 
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