[26160] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A call for the future. Was: Re: Verio Decides what parts of the internet to drop
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Dispensa)
Mon Dec 6 22:00:31 1999
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From: "Steve Dispensa" <dispensa@maverick.mwis.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 20:54:07 -0600
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One quick difference - the PSTN only has to make a single routing decision
per call. Internet routers usually decide on a per-packet basis.
> - IPv6 is not the answer to our routability problems, but it will vastly
> accelerate the reachability problems we already have. Provider-based
> prefixing will be a breaking dike once it becomes obvious to people
> that geographical or organizational hierarchies cannot be dictated
> over business needs.
Agreed. Sounds good in theory, but I wouldn't bet on most organizations
being happy with keeping these hierarchies intact.
- Steve
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