[76028] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: size of the routing table is a big deal, especially in IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E.Seastrom)
Mon Nov 29 23:33:49 2004
To: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>
Cc: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>, NANOG <NANOG@merit.edu>
From: Robert E.Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:30:59 -0500
In-Reply-To: <41ABF3A3.9040203@tony.li> (Tony Li's message of "Mon, 29 Nov
2004 20:14:27 -0800")
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li> writes:
> My preferred solution at this point is for the UN to take over
> management of the entire Internet and for them to issue a policy of
> one prefix per country. This will have all sorts of nasty downsides
> for national providers and folks that care about optimal routing, but
> it's the only way that I can see that will allow the Internet to
> continue to operate over the long term.
... and once the Internet's effectiveness and usefulness is dropped to
a level comparable to that of the IAEA, nobody will care anymore.
Presto, problem solved!
---Rob
