While it's a very interesting read and it's always nice to know what Danny is up to, the concept is a pretty extreme corner case when you consider the original question. I took the original question to be about global versus regional AS in a provider backbone.
On the other hand if we'd had this capability years ago the notion of a CDN based on anycasting would be viable in a multi-provider environment. Maybe time to revive that idea? jy On 25/03/2011, at 8:45 AM, David Conrad <d...@virtualized.org> wrote: > On Mar 24, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Jeffrey S. Young wrote: >> Multiple AS, one per region, is about extracting maximum revenue from >> your client base. In 2000 we had no technical reason to do it, I can't see >> a technical reason to do it today. This is a layer 8/9 issue. > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mcpherson-unique-origin-as-00 > > Regards, > -drc > >
