[785] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: IETF questions -- Internet growth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Gunshannon)
Thu May 30 14:39:42 1991
From: bill@tuatara.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
To: vcerf@nri.reston.va.us
Date: Thu, 30 May 91 14:37:57 EDT
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Reply-To: bill@platypus.uofs.edu
In-Reply-To: <9105292038.aa06441@NRI.NRI.Reston.VA.US>; from "vcerf@NRI.Reston.VA.US" at May 29, 91 8:38 pm
According to vcerf@NRI.Reston.VA.US:
>
> given the very limited number of class A nets available, we'd be extremely
> careful to whom they were allocated. Given the international nature of
> the Internet, one is almost tempted to suggest that at most one class A
> address ought be assigned per country!!!
Given the statement above, I would have to side with Dave Morton on this.
Maybe the time is now to start looking at (and doing very fast) whatever it
is going to take to expand the address space for IP. Look at the current
concepts being espoused by backer of the NREN. How many a networks (or even
just addresses) are going to be need to bring all of the K-12 schools online?
And what about all the public libraries in the country?? I know that I am
actively trying to make this a reality around here. Can it be that long
before other parts of the country also start implementing rather than just
talking about it?? What happens to that leveling off point that was mentioned
when all the schools in the country and not just colleges are factored in??
The problem isn't going to go away and the more equipment that goes out to
the field, the harder it is going to be to fix everybody.
I can see it all now, we will have both 4 and 6 octet addresses on the same
cable and will need some kind of router to move the traffic back and forth.
bill
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