[2355] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG/IEPG/ISOC's current role
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Bass (PIER))
Thu Apr 4 11:09:10 1996
From: Tim Bass (PIER) <pier@dune.silkroad.com>
To: hcb@clark.net (Howard C. Berkowitz)
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 11:04:54 -0500 (EST)
Cc: dalvenja@ict.org, nanog@merit.edu, pier@isi.edu
In-Reply-To: <v01520d01ad89909b57db@[168.143.1.215]> from "Howard C. Berkowitz" at Apr 4, 96 09:53:54 am
Howard states:
[ ... ]
> IMHO, I don't think you can guarantee that almost anything will stay
> routable, certainly anything less than an /18. Bluntly, there's no good
> way to guarantee routable prefixes.
>
Yes, there is a good way to GUARANTEE routable prefixes. Intermediate
system address translation which maps to "virtual renumbering"....
The answer my friend.... is blowing in the wind... in the technical
implementation, not "human attitude re-engineering".....
The attitude, .... "bluntly, there's no good way for man to fly...."
is not unique to written history.... it is alive and well in the
Internet today ;-)
Best Regards,
Tim
