Re: your mail

[hwb () upeksa sdsc edu (Hans-Werner Braun)]

Steve:

Sounds like a fine idea to me. Aren't we also just talking about a few
remaining months of the NSFNET Backbone, after which the issue would
become irrelevant anyway? So doing what you are saying seems to also
help with the transition?

Hans-Werner

> If NSF were to waive the NSFNET Backbone Service AUP **for the sole 
> purpose of assisting providers in effective CIDRization/aggregation to 
> avoid Internet collapse**, would that be of any help?
>
> I have alerted the NSF Counsel to this possibility, and they are of 
> course concerned that everyone will cancel their current commercial 
> contracts, switch their traffic to NSFNET, and hurl all the private 
> providers into bankruptcy.
>
> I should welcome your comments; if you support the idea (the waiver, not
> hurtling into ruin), I may also enlist your help convincing Counsel and
> the IG. 
>
> -s
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