[2437] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: CIDR,Sprint and the Big Guys.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent W. England)
Fri Apr 5 20:15:01 1996
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 17:12:24 -0800
To: salo@msc.edu (Tim Salo), nanog@merit.edu
From: "Kent W. England" <kwe@6SigmaNets.com>
At 08:25 AM 4/5/96 -0600, Tim Salo wrote:
>Perhaps, the [anticipated] consolidation of ISPs will be a significant
>event in the efforts to control routing table size.
>
>-tjs
>
Do we need address leasing to hasten that process or should we let the
market decide? In any event, anyone buying up a bunch of ISPs will have a
difficult time cleaning up the aggregation of addresses they inherit.
--Kent
BTW, I thought it was the updates, peerings and flaps that was the true
problem, not the absolute number of routing table entries.
