[40983] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: multi-homing fixes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David R. Conrad)
Tue Aug 28 03:33:43 2001
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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 00:32:57 -0700
To: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>,
"Patrick Greenwell" <patrick@cybernothing.org>
From: "David R. Conrad" <david.conrad@nominum.com>
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Hi,
At 12:14 AM 8/28/2001 -0700, David Schwartz wrote:
>It would be a
>waste of IP space and harm the net as a whole if RIRs adopted a
>microallocation policy that was too generous and resulted in allocating
>non-routable IP space.
One could argue that the RIRs are wasting address space by allocating on
arbitrary boundaries, e.g., /20s, instead of allocating according to
documented requirements.
One could also argue that the "sane" allocation policies of the RIRs have
resulted in ISPs not being forced to figure out how to apply effective
mechanisms to limit route prefix growth and as a direct result created a
tragedy of the commons in the DFZ.
Of course, I wouldn't argue those positions... :-)
Rgds,
-drc
Speaking for no one (and/or nothing) but myself
