On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm skeptical that a model that only sort of works for under 30K ASNs > > and maybe 1K bilateral peering agreements for the *really* big Tier-1s > > won't scale to a world that has 40M+ .com domains and probably a million > > SMTP servers. > > Well the way that I see this scaling is that you have a core of email > service providers who are members of the Internet Mail Services > Association.
The business world simply doesn't work that way. Ever heard of the phrase "Standards are great -- there's so many of them to choose from!"? > These core operators sign up to a multilateral mail peering agreement and > provide email transit services for other operators. > > The next layer is the non-core email service providers who have bilateral > mail peering agreements with one or more core email transport providers. Contrary to what you said before, this *IS* the UUCP model in a nutshell. It has been done before, it does not scale, and it does not fit the way business works today. -- -- Todd Vierling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>