[31414] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: exponential route prefix growth, was: Re: The Cidr Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Fri Sep 22 17:39:59 2000
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From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@MHSC.com>
To: Timothy Brown <tcb@ga.prestige.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 14:39:12 -0700
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timothy Brown [mailto:tcb@ga.prestige.net]
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 1:32 PM
>
> > What 'threshold' has triggered this sudden event, with routes going
> Which sucks, because the better choice for them is to ignore
> the political
> concerns and do the technically responsible thing, which is
> bring their
> content or resources, whatever they are, closer to points in
> the Internet
> where they are most commonly used. There's really very
> little to be gained
> by announcing their own space as opposed to having a
> collocation provider
> with good connectivity providing them blocks out of their space.
au contrare. There's LOTs to be gained.
> They just come from a larger enterprise mentality where they
> work very hard
> to make sure all the resources are centralized and controlled
> by one or two
> people.
The key word is "control" and the right form of responsibility is
"fiscal", not "technical".
