[1629] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Sat Jan 27 13:38:54 1996
To: cidrd@iepg.org, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Jan 1996 12:20:25 CST."
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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 10:35:50 -0800
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
If we believe that we're going to get 1024 multihomable address blocks per /8,
then there will not be enough of these for all the providers who can multihome
in this NAPatudinous market.
IPv4 is going to _force_ us to a multitiered routing system. Everybody, please
stop trying to figure out how to make a singly tiered system work out of fear
that you will be trapped in a relationship with a bad upstream.
Instead, start trying to figure out how to build neutral, lasting upstreams.
PCH and CIX are examples, though neither is quite right for various reasons.
