[312] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CIDR FAQ
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@ISI.EDU)
Wed Aug 16 17:44:57 1995
From: bmanning@ISI.EDU
To: yakov@cisco.com (Yakov Rekhter)
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 14:33:24 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: paul@vix.com, nanog@merit.edu, yakov@cisco.com
In-Reply-To: <199508162009.NAA20593@hubbub.cisco.com> from "Yakov Rekhter" at Aug 16, 95 01:09:52 pm
>
> Paul,
>
> Does that mean that all the internet registries no longer allocate
> /24 (or longer) prefixes that have nothing to do with the actual
> Internet topology (these prefixes aka "portable addresses") ? Perhaps
> folks from various Internet registries would be able to answer this
> question.
Immaterial. What matters is if providers continue
to route them.
> CIDR works as long as addresses are assigned in a topologically
> significant fashion. And this precondition is crucial.
Not quite. CIDR works. Routing remains stable
when providers route prefixes in a topological fashion.
>
> Yakov.
>
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--bill
