[1912] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [NIC-960209.1757] Routing Problem (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan B. Clegg)
Thu Feb 15 11:03:53 1996
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 10:41:15 -0500 (EST)
From: "Alan B. Clegg" <abc@gateway.com>
To: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
cc: Robert Du Gaue <rdugaue@calweb.com>,
William Allen Simpson <bsimpson@morningstar.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199602121228.EAA18592@lint.cisco.com>
On Mon, 12 Feb 1996, Paul Ferguson wrote:
[How to get a block]
> 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.
But, this would require working with your direct competition in your
local geographic area.
Ain't gonna happen.
No way, No How.
The whole point of getting the bigger address space is to be better than
your competition (multi-homed, etc etc.)
(not that I don't *WANT* it to happen, it just isn't going to.)
-abc
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