[7903] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Big Squeeze
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kim Hubbard)
Sun Mar 2 01:59:48 1997
From: Kim Hubbard <kimh@internic.net>
To: SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM (Sean Donelan)
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 01:56:42 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <970302001205.a25a@SDG.DRA.COM> from "Sean Donelan" at Mar 2, 97 00:12:05 am
>
> Except the current allocation practices seem at odds with the
> goal of minimizing route table growth. Why is it better to
> allocate several non-agregatable blocks that are 'just' the
> right size rather than one aggregatable block the next size
> larger?
Actually, the current allocation practices do exactly that since
the InterNIC, in almost all cases, allocates blocks of addresses
to ISPs from larger reserved blocks.
Kim Hubbard
>
> So which do providers really want to minimize, the number
> of route entries or the size of individual route entries?
> --
> Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
> Affiliation given for identification not representation
>
