[813] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: BGP masks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James B. Van Bokkelen)
Tue Jun 4 17:59:59 1991
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 91 18:02:10 -0400
To: yakov@watson.ibm.com
From: jbvb@ftp.com (James B. Van Bokkelen)
Reply-To: jbvb-tech@ftp.com
Cc: ietf@isi.edu, com-priv@psi.com
If the consensus is that BGP3 can't wait, I'll buy it, but I strongly
agree about the "chicken-and-egg" issues. It appears that we can
solve the address problem in one of several ways: 1) IP v7, with more
bits, 2) overlapping subset address spaces with magic in the name lookup
and wrappers on the backbone, or 3) flushing network classes in favor of
variable subnet masks. Of the alternatives, I think 3 is both easy to do
(every DOS node we've shipped since 10/90 can use it as-is) and closest to
reaching critical mass.
James B. VanBokkelen 26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA 01880
FTP Software Inc. voice: (617) 246-0900 fax: (617) 246-0901
