[108] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EP.NET ???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John G. Scudder)
Sat Jul 29 14:39:13 1995
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 14:31:26 -0400
To: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
From: jgs@aads.net (John G. Scudder)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 10:18 AM 7/29/95, Randy Bush wrote:
[...]
>There's another value-subtracted service offered to IXers by this kind
>service. "The block 198.32.0.0/16 is set aside for numbering exchange
>points. The block is listed to ISI. Specific sub-delegations can be made as
>needed." Nice way to break aggregation, create an extra route, ...
What is your proposal for numbering exchange points in a more aggregatable
fashion? An exchange point is about as multi-homed as they come, and as
you know multi-homed nets "break aggregation" anyway. I suppose you could
take the address for the EP medium out of one of the attached providers'
address space, but that's a small improvement at best (and a hole at worst,
if that provider later disconnects from the EP).
BTW, I agree as to the non-utility of ep.net.
--John
