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To tell anybody ‘I AM ISP A’ you will have to connect physically to some ISP C. C will then (hopefully) check you and if you go ‘I AM ISP A’ he’ll ignore you and don’t tell anyone unless you’re really ISP A and he determined you to be this guy.

There are rather obvious limits, however, for example you will likely have to believe your ISP C if he says ‘I AM ISP B NOW, TOO’. If you then connect to another ISP D, and tell him ‘I KNOW ISP B’, D will have to decide whether to trust you (likely if you are a large telecom company) or not (if you just happen to have two 10 MBit/s lines to C and D each).



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