[1532] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Thu Jan 25 21:43:18 1996
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 18:25:17 -0800
From: Tony Li <tli@cisco.com>
To: kozowski@structured.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, cidrd@iepg.org, iab@isi.edu, iesg@isi.edu, iana@isi.edu
In-Reply-To: <199601260207.SAA00528@chaos.structured.net> (message from Eric Kozowski on Thu, 25 Jan 1996 18:07:51 -0800)
This has been my major complaint w/ the whole CIDR/Address Allocation/etc.
debacle. The ISPs/NSPs are doing one thing regarding address space and the
US registry is doing another. The allocation policy is not conducive to
the reducing the number of routes goal.
We need to decide which is a bigger problem - number of routes or remaining
address space. We can't have it both ways.
I disagree. With efficient, careful allocation and aggregation, there is
no reason to suppose that we cannot have address space efficiency and
compact routing tables. Yes, it is challenging to do so. But the goals
are not contradictory.
Tony
