[1861] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [NIC-960209.1757] Routing Problem (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Mon Feb 12 07:43:15 1996
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 07:29:37 -0500
To: Robert Du Gaue <rdugaue@calweb.com>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: William Allen Simpson <bsimpson@morningstar.com>, nanog@merit.edu
At 11:01 PM 2/11/96 -0800, Robert Du Gaue wrote:
>> No circularity about it. First, you need customers. Second, if you
>> already have enough customers, you get your own IP space.
>>
>> Until then, you get a small chunk out of somebody else's bigger IP space.
>
>Yeah right. You try that with a growing business. Then when you finally
>get enough users and corporate customers to 'justify' your own 64block and
>then give them the news that their entire networks will now need to be
>reconfigured how do you think they'll react. If I was that big, the amount
>of money it would cost me and my end-users would not be trivial.
>
Creating a consortium [akin to the NAP model] of small ISP's could
easily resolve this problem, if all address space allocated to each
ISP was contiguous and could be aggregated to a larger prefix.
This has been suggested on numerous occasions.
- paul
