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Re: too many routes

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Porter)
Thu Sep 11 13:14:24 1997

To: "Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "10 Sep 1997 20:50:12 EDT."
             <ythgbs3c8r.fsf@cesium.clock.org> 
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 11:42:58 -0500
From: Jeremy Porter <jerry@fc.net>


>In other words, removing the feedback mechanisms on the
>growth of the number of globally-visible prefixes and on
>prefix instability is probably a really bad idea.

Based on the comment from the registries at the DC Nanog,
truer words have rarely been spoken.  The registries were themeselves
starting to have scaling issues relating to the number of requests
for portable assignments.



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