[13469] in North American Network Operators' Group
Geographic v. topological address allocation [Was: Re: IPv8 <
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Thu Nov 6 16:58:14 1997
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 16:47:23 -0500
To: Alan Hannan <hannan@bythetrees.com>
From: Paul Ferguson <ferguson@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19971106163501.10396@freedom.bythetrees.com>
At 04:35 PM 11/6/97 -0500, Alan Hannan wrote:
>
> The lack of correlation is the exception, in my experience, than
> the rule.
>
I'm not sure I agree, but that's not really the point.
I believe the point is that we should not assume that
they are one and the same. Topology (or as they say in
IPv6-speak, aggregator, next-level-aggregator, etc.) is
quite critical in maintaining sufficient levels of
aggregation.
- paul
