[1641] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Creative routing (was Re: Policy Statement ...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Sat Jan 27 22:32:10 1996
From: Alan Hannan <alan@gi.net>
To: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM (Sean Donelan)
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 21:28:27 -0600 (CST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <960127194330.1a91@SDG.DRA.COM> from "Sean Donelan" at Jan 27, 96 07:43:30 pm
......... Sean Donelan is rumored to have said:
] >Well, there's an alternate tactic for a tiny tiny company.
]
] I was thinking of a slightly simplier example. Nevertheless,
] Mr. Doran's example confirms NSP engineers are capable of all
] sorts of routing hacks when it is in their self-interest to do so.
Exactly. So let's forget there ever was such a thing as A/B/C
networks and enforce classlessness. Couple this w/ responsibility
originating from the big NSP players on enforcing prefix lengths,
and *whoah* look what the world can figure out to do.
"Golly, thar Martha, once them folks up in Reston said I had to
renumber, well shucks, it warnt quite as hard as I thunk."
-alan
