[1889] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP Domain Auction
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Tue Feb 13 12:04:40 1996
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 11:54:29 -0500
To: "Craig A. Huegen" <c-huegen@quad.quadrunner.com>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: mike <mn@tremere.ios.com>, nanog@merit.edu
At 07:15 PM 2/12/96 -0800, Craig A. Huegen wrote:
>
>I think that right now, we shouldn't be too concerned with "CIDRize or
>DIE!". At this point, we should be helping other entities out--you're
>not FORCING them to renumber by making their networks non-routable
>within one organization--you're screwing your customers out of optimal
>connectivity to any particular site.
>
>The Internet has gotten too much away from the original purpose, to share
>information. It has gone to a vast commercial marketing symbol, where
>most companies really don't care about other entities--"Why should we
>help this group? They're customers of ISP X!"
>
That's all weel and good, but it certainly doesn't scale. Which is the
entire problem. Sigh.
- paul
