[2410] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CIDR, Sprint and the Big guys.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wolfgang Henke)
Fri Apr 5 15:21:28 1996
From: Wolfgang Henke <wolfgang@whnet.com>
To: salo@msc.edu
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 12:19:27 -0800 (PST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
salo@msc.edu (Tim Salo) wrote:
It would appear that there may also be a strong argument that the
tremendous proliferation of [small] ISPs is a significant contributor
to the growth of the size of the Internet routing tables.
Tim,
this smells like an opportunity to me. To my regret I've been observing
the decline of the supercomputer industry for years due to a lack of demand
(KSR, CM5). Can't the supercomputer gurus apply some of their extensive
knowledge gained in a super-router?
Wolfgang
