er... to avoid a nightmare scenario of the whole world running some IGP like OSPF or ISIS or god forbid- RIP, you gotta run BGP.
BGP assumes the existence of autonomous systems (AS). So without AS's you cant route traffic past your local routing domain.
ASs normally get payed to do the job, but I suppose thats not necessary (in lala land). These payed ASs normally call themselves ISPs.
so... though its theoretically possible to have a global internet without paying a cent, its not possible to run it without organizations administrating its AS. Since they want money.. well I cant see a future internet based on IPv4 or IPv6 or whatever which is free...
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er... to avoid a nightmare scenario of the whole world running some IGP like OSPF or ISIS or god forbid- RIP, you gotta run BGP.
BGP assumes the existence of autonomous systems (AS). So without AS's you cant route traffic past your local routing domain.
ASs normally get payed to do the job, but I suppose thats not necessary (in lala land). These payed ASs normally call themselves ISPs.
so... though its theoretically possible to have a global internet without paying a cent, its not possible to run it without organizations administrating its AS. Since they want money.. well I cant see a future internet based on IPv4 or IPv6 or whatever which is free...