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larger space was: Re: [NIC-....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carl Payne)
Thu Feb 15 13:40:29 1996
From: Carl Payne <cpayne@fiber.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 96 11:18:29 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: cpayne@fiber.net
>The whole point of getting the bigger address space is to be better than=20
>your competition (multi-homed, etc etc.)
Oh, baloney.
The point of a larger address space is ease of deployment. The current =
thinking is, "We don't want it to be easier if it wastes numbers. Work a =
little harder."
Besides, if you think for one minute that the customers of most ISPs give a =
hoot about larger address space, or that being multi-homed will GUARANTEE a =
dialup customer will go to them, then you'd be interested to hear about my =
real estate ventures...
Carl=
