Re: [NIC-960209.1757] Routing Problem (fwd)

[Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco com>]

Simon,

That's what CIDR is all about; the geographical allocation of
addresses/prefixes at the point of Internet connectivity for the
purposes of aggregation. If there is no sanity in address allocation,
we cannot solve the problem.

- paul

At 01:15 AM 2/13/96 +0000, Simon Chan wrote:

> The unfortunate requirement of such scheme to work is that
> all address space allocated to the small ISP's has to be contiquous so that it 
> could be aggregated to a larger prefix under an autonomous system.  
> Given the completely arbitrary manner adopted by the Internic's 
> address allocation policy, (eg. 4 C's to ISP A, skip a few C's, 8 C's 
> to ISP B where A and B can be 4,000 miles apart) it is safe to assume 
> that the small chunks of C class addresses are geographically 
> dispersed throughout the States with many holes still unassigned or 
> unaccounted for.  If you are talking about swamp, this is it.  
> However, a survey for how those chunks of address got broken up into 
> many different places perhaps can help in the direction of finding 
> such solution.  If these small IP pieces can be grouped together 
> according to their geographic locations,  there is chance that some 
> broken chunks may be pieced together to form large enough piece by 
> pure luck.  If such solution exists, I am sure someone would be 
> interested in forming such regional consortiums to help salvage the once lost 
> IP addresses.