[321] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CIDR FAQ
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yakov Rekhter)
Thu Aug 17 09:38:37 1995
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Aug 95 23:11:29 PDT."
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 95 06:16:24 PDT
From: Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com>
Simon,
> With other words, we don't even know if the I-D in question is fixing the
> right problem.
The "I-D in question" addresses the incompatibility between
CIDR and the notion of "address ownership". This incompatibility
is *fundamental*. Ignoring it (or pretending that it does not exist)
does not make the incompatibility less fundamental.
Yakov.
