[26057] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Verio Decides what parts of the internet to drop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BrandonButterworth)
Fri Dec 3 02:44:33 1999
From: brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk (BrandonButterworth)
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 07:43:24 GMT
Message-Id: <12435.199912030743@sunf10.rd.bbc.co.uk>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> It's a PITA and not the cleanest of methods, but until all the backbones
> quit filtering /24s it's what we have to do. The other alternative (and
> we've considered it) is to obtain a much larger space directly from ARIN and
> burn the unused space.
So which is worse for the net, a table full of /24s or a table
full of /19s and no address space left? The hope is
registry policy will stop people from getting /19s. Hope
doesn't scale.
brandon
