[1533] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yakov Rekhter)
Thu Jan 25 21:48:26 1996
To: Eric Kozowski <kozowski@structured.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu, cidrd@iepg.org, iab@isi.edu, iesg@isi.edu, iana@isi.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 25 Jan 96 18:07:51 PST."
<199601260207.SAA00528@chaos.structured.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 96 18:31:06 PST
From: Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com>
Eric,
> 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 would tend to agree that it is rather hard to "have it both ways"
given the set of *current* policies we use for both address
allocation/management and for the exchange of routing information.
However, if we wouldn't be constrained by the current policies, then
it is not obvious to me at all that it would be impossible
to have both efficient address space utilization *and* efficient
routing (high degree of aggregation) at the same time.
Yakov.
