[1769] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yakov Rekhter)
Wed Jan 31 13:20:50 1996
To: huitema@pax.inria.fr (Christian Huitema)
cc: cidrd@iepg.org, iana@isi.edu, iesg@isi.edu, local-ir@ripe.net,
nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 31 Jan 96 18:48:26 +0100."
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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 96 10:13:11 PST
From: Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com>
Christian,
> Paying can be done in many way, from the "consortium" which you suggest to
> some fees to a service company that operates the ACID. In fact, the major
> roadblock here is the intrisic monopoly -- at first sight, there can only
> be one ACID for a given aggregate. This may trigger all sorts of
> regulatory questions.
It had been pointed out several times before that hierarchical routing
has an *inherently* monopolistic aspect - it ties an organization
whose addresses have to be aggregated with the organization that
aggregates these addresses (aggregator).
Yakov.
