[85351] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent move without renumbering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Fri Oct 7 17:04:36 2005
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 13:55:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4346BA18.5030506@greendragon.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> I remember presenting a paper at IETF over a decade ago about assigning
> IP addresses to exchanges instead of carriers.
Yes, that's been debunked many times over at this point. Still, it occurs
to someone new, periodically. The problem is that the ISPs which matter
are at more than one IX, so it results in massively fragmented routing,
completely defeating aggregation. The cure is worse than the disease.
-Bill
