[1534] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Kozowski)
Thu Jan 25 21:48:32 1996
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 18:37:04 -0800
From: Eric Kozowski <kozowski@structured.net>
To: yakov@cisco.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, cidrd@iepg.org, iab@isi.edu, iesg@isi.edu, iana@isi.edu
>> 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.
I guess I should have been more clear. What I meant was that we can't
have it both ways with the _current_ policies.
Eric
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