[1771] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Wed Jan 31 14:03:20 1996
To: Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com>
Cc: huitema@pax.inria.fr (Christian Huitema), cidrd@iepg.org, iana@isi.edu,
iesg@isi.edu, local-ir@ripe.net, nanog@merit.edu, gherbert@crl.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:13:11 PST."
<199601311813.KAA17564@hubbub.cisco.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:45:11 -0800
From: George Herbert <gherbert@crl.com>
>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).
Having an open consortium / association managing large aggregated
spaces therefore is somewhat beneficial, in that it isn't competing
with its members at any level.
-george
