[13471] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Geographic v. topological address allocation [Was: Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Thu Nov 6 17:17:14 1997
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 17:10:37 -0500
To: Alan Hannan <hannan@bythetrees.com>
From: Paul Ferguson <ferguson@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19971106170349.65082@freedom.bythetrees.com>
Alan,
Thinking about your response, I am reminded of the
MUST and SHOULD semantics in the context of IETF
documents. ;-)
- paul
At 05:03 PM 11/6/97 -0500, Alan Hannan wrote:
>
> Networks that span large geographic areas should be deaggregated
> into regional ares such that aggregation can be efficiently
> implemented.
>
> Additionally, within this provider, they should allocate their
> chunk of the address space in a geographic manner.
>
