[85787] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Mon Oct 17 12:44:37 2005
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOC.4.61.0510170901210.16045@paixhost.pch.net>
Cc: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:44:08 -0700
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>> ...the necessary evil called CIDR. evil because it locked customers
>> into their providers, entrenched the existing large providers
>> against future providers, and made it hard or impossible for the
>> average endusing company to multihome.
>
> Uh, perhaps I'm being dense, but how does moving masking off byte
> boundaries have any of the above effects?
Bill,
CIDR also changed allocation policies and created the notions of PA
and PI space.
Tony
