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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Manning)
Mon Sep 9 07:18:28 1996

From: bmanning@ISI.EDU (Bill Manning)
To: vixie@wisdom.home.vix.com (Paul A Vixie)
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 04:17:38 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, iepg@iepg.org
In-Reply-To: <9609082312.AA02222@wisdom.home.vix.com> from "Paul A Vixie" at Sep 8, 96 04:12:38 pm

> 
> We have considered assigning a /32 to each root name server and asking
> everybody in the universe to carry these 10 or so routes in the interest
> of complete and permanent provider independence.  So rather than worry
> about the /24's ... :-)
> 

For those not at the last IEPG mtg, this was discussed with the trade off
being 13 host routes vs coordinating root cache updates for 20-30 million
end nodes.

-- 
--bill

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