[53339] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP allocation/assignment practices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ron da Silva)
Tue Nov 12 09:57:32 2002
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:56:06 -0500
From: Ron da Silva <ron@aol.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1722877196.1037107093@[192.168.100.5]>; from alex@alex.org.uk on Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:18:13PM -0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Fundamentally, you can implement an allocation/assignment policy
that optimizes utilization at the cost of aggregation or a policy
that optimizes aggregation at the cost of utilization. The challenge
is to find a reasonable solution in the middle of those extremes.
-ron