[1928] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [NIC-960209.1757] Routing Problem (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Fri Feb 16 09:51:15 1996
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 09:47:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
cc: "Alan B. Clegg" <abc@gateway.com>, Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>,
Robert Du Gaue <rdugaue@calweb.com>,
William Allen Simpson <bsimpson@morningstar.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960215130450.3311C-100000@okjunc.junction.net>
On Thu, 15 Feb 1996, Michael Dillon wrote:
> Wrong. It already is happening in some regions. You won't see any direct
> competition in the Internet business for at least two more years unless
> you see monsters under your bed and the CIA are listening in on your
> brain.
>
> The Internet market is miniscule. It is growing fast. It will continue to
> grow fast. No one company can hope to grow fast enough to dominate in any
> particular city. That's why you don't have to work with your local
> competition, you just have to work with your other local ISP's in
> building your local Internet infrastructure and growing your local
> Internet market..
Yes, so why not take you address space from you upstreem provider and
yes, when you need to change it. We started with 1 /24 then, /23 then
/19, all from Sprintlink. We then added a MCI connection and the Internic
gave us a /18, then we got connected to a NAP, the NIC gave us one more
/18. Yes, we had to renumber off the /24, /23, and are still working on
the /19.
The point is that the NIC has no idea how long you will be in business,
or if you need the space at all. I am provding access to right now 10
ISP, that will be gone in a year, and have watch that many die so far.
Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Your Gateway to the World!
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