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Re: Are We to Buy Speed for a Few or Connectivity for Many?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Gong)
Mon Feb 3 15:20:14 1992

To: Pushpendra Mohta <pushp@CERF.NET>
Cc: dennis@MrBill.CAnet.CA (Dennis Ferguson), com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 02 Feb 92 02:32:37 -0800.
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 92 12:17:44 PST
From: "John Gong" <jgong@us.oracle.com>


> >>
> >>I was wondering, then, if there was a routing plan for a possible future
> >>CIX with more players and more points of contact (or even a plan for

> CIX techs are working on a routing plan for the current scenario
> for nets connected to both the NSFnet and CIX backbones. When ready, 
> it will probably be available in a suitable forum. 

> --pushpendra


It's too late to slice the IP address space into anything with geographic
significance, but the "next great network" address space could possibly
be keyed with time zones?  Just a not-altogether-silly thought.


      John

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