[4195] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The SWAMP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Mon Sep 9 04:11:43 1996
To: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
Cc: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>, nanog@merit.edu,
namedroppers <namedroppers@internic.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 08 Sep 1996 22:13:00 PDT."
<m0uzyed-000803C@rip.psg.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 1996 01:10:49 -0700
From: Paul A Vixie <vixie@wisdom.home.vix.com>
> But I gotta ask why we have to pollute the world with a few more /24s.
> Everybody who has introduced /24s probably thinks that their reason is
> justified. Commons, meet sheep.
the goal of the /32 proposal (which we've not made formally btw) is to
give root servers permanent addresses even if they change identity,
locations, providers, or owners.
