[958] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Address clustering intuition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Thu Nov 9 13:27:10 1995
From: Alan Hannan <alan@gi.net>
To: haas@xmission.com (Walter O. Haas)
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 12:20:59 -0600 (CST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199511091716.KAA03134@xmission.xmission.com> from "Walter O. Haas" at Nov 9, 95 10:16:39 am
......... Walter O. Haas is rumored to have said:
]
] I've formed an intuition that, if all IP addresses were portable (ie.
] independent of ISP) and assigned on a strictly geographic basis, then
] there would *automatically* be clustering of addresses equivalent to
] that obtained from CIDRization as a result of marketplace forces and
] the practicalities of technology.
While this would perhaps increase the 'possibility' of aggregation
increase, it ignores the fact that networks are laid out w/ wires
and planned logically wrt tariff issues and existing infrastructure
and capacity.
While it's a good idea, it's not terribly practically useful. For
example, we cover 11 states, so would I then need 11 CIDR blocks?
Why not do things "right" and let me have 2 CIDR blocks to downlay
from my 2 hubs.
If customers want to change ISPs, that's not my/our concern, DHCP,
bootp, manual renumbering are all available.
-alan
