[86420] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: classful routes redux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Thu Nov 3 16:35:22 2005
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 21:34:20 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Cc: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>,
Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>, Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>,
Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0511032113050.25860-100000@server2.tcw.telecomplete.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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> whilst i'm at the mic here, ditch the idea of microassignments, just give out a
> standard /32 block ... lets not start out with ge 33 prefixes in the table when
> theres no need
>
> Steve
there is this wonderful, apparently US phenomeon, called the
"warehouse" store aka Stuffmart. Single guys go in for a quart
of milk and some TP and walk out w/ a MINIMUM of four gallons of
milk, 144 rolls of TP, and a side of beef.
saving the poor routing table is a laudable and worthwhile goal,
but dumping the excess into the edges, "just cause its easy" strikes
me as lame. a routing table slot is a slot is a slot. It holds
a /96 as well as a /32 as well as a /112. If we are going to ditch
"microassignments" (and boy is that term an oxymoron) then we should
also dump "one-size-fits-all" and really and truely give folks what
they need. RIRs have -never- assured the routablity of delegations.
--oat willie (as a lone voice)
