[250] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: One alternative to CIDR... ASAP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vince Fuller)
Sun Aug 13 23:16:12 1995
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 95 20:14:17 PDT
From: Vince Fuller <vaf@valinor.barrnet.net>
To: Tim Bass <bass@linux.silkroad.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, dot_jessee@mcimail.com (Dot Jessee)
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 13 Aug 1995 16:32:18 -0400 (EDT)
People keep sending me e-mail asking for my ideas on alternatives to
renumbering and CIDR. Here is a very rough strawman idea just
posted to the CIDRD-WG. There are similar variations on this
ASN routing paradigm that also could be considered:
I'd suggest that those considering this proposal also peruse the archives of
the IPAE mailing list, since IPAE (IP Address Encapsulation) was, at least in
its earlies form, precisely this - a mechanism for encapsulating IP addresses
in such a way as to create an inter-AS routing scheme using a separate, 32-bit
address space.
If memory serves, there have also been other earlier proposals for doing
AS-to-AS routing using either a separate address space or using IP options -
I believe the Big-Internet mailing list archives contains volumnous discussion
of these techniques.
Re-inventing a square wheel doesn't make it roll any better...
--Vince
