RE: more specific routes in today reality

[Kurt Erik Lindqvist KPNQwest <]

> > So do I (at least in this little part of the thread, which I haven't
> > had the opportunity to follow at all length). For example, a provider-wide
> > routing (or performance, or whatever) problem would be your problem if
> > homed only to that one provider.
> 
> 
> If it is a outage and you are running BGP you will need to wait for your
> router to converge. In worst case you will be dragged into the routing
> problems. However, I agree with Randy that 90% of outages are due to
> local-tail problems. 
> 
> I agree that two links to two operators are more reliable, but the real 
> questions are if they are enough MORE reliable to justify the extra
> routes, and if so how do we implement this? And this should be a general
> solution all the way down to the residential users...
> 
> I am not conviced that having multiple upstreams for entrprises, SOHO,
> residentials or even small ISPs are worth it.

Oh, and BTW. I do think that in the long run we need to address this
(among other things) one way to the other, but I don't think that todays
routing technologies will scale for it.

- kurtis -