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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
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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

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