[1793] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Huddle)
Thu Feb 1 15:13:06 1996
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 14:44:41 -0500
From: Scott Huddle <huddle@mci.net>
To: jnc@ginger.lcs.mit.edu, gherbert@crl.com
Cc: smd@cesium.clock.org, cidrd@iepg.org, local-ir@ripe.net, nanog@merit.edu
> > It only gets really touchy if few of the backbones touch down in the area.
> >
> >Unfortunately, this is exactly the case in which geographic addressing doesn't
> >work so well any more, and we have no way to mandate that backbones touch down.
>
> Name a backbone which doesn't come into the San Francisco Bay Area.
Um, all of the rest of the world's providers.
> This is the area I want to try the idea out in. In terms of physical
> touchdowns, they are all in place. The only barrier is getting most
> of the backbones to willingly participate in the experiment.
And whats your business case that'll do this?
> A very significant chunk of new domains and new ISPs are here,
> in the 415/408/510 area code regions (and 707, which is next door
> and could be included if we wanted...).
So build it.
-scott
