[CII] One possible scenario

[John Osmon]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 08:52:12AM -0700, Joe St Sauver wrote:
> I'd be really wary of counting on having people provide gratuitous 
> IPv4 transit as an recovery solution based on how that's (not) 
> worked in the IPv6 world. 

An interesting point, and worth considering in the whole.

However, I'm not suggesting that people will transit *ALL* of a
peer's traffic -- only that which has been advertised as critical.
The advertisements would be /32s, maybe even a /24 at time -- lots
of routing slots, but small swaths of space.

I'll quote myself from http://isotf.org/pipermail/cii/2009-November/000035.html
   "My network, my rules."  But I'll always prempt traffic on my net
   for health/safety.  Kinda seems like my duty to the society that I live
   within...

If a peer can tell me what is critical for health/safety, I'll make sure
I advertise those things onto my other peers in time of emergency.  I'm
going to do this with or without a government mandate -- if it is truly
crticial infrastructure, I want my customers to be able to reach it.

If I have enough smaller providers willing to do this, do I manage
to keep Bill's "all I care about" up and running?