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

[Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco com>]

At 11:01 PM 2/11/96 -0800, Robert Du Gaue wrote:

> > No circularity about it.  First, you need customers.  Second, if you
> > already have enough customers, you get your own IP space.
> >
> > Until then, you get a small chunk out of somebody else's bigger IP space.
>
> Yeah right. You try that with a growing business. Then when you finally
> get enough users and corporate customers to 'justify' your own 64block and
> then give them the news that their entire networks will now need to be
> reconfigured how do you think they'll react. If I was that big, the amount
> of money it would cost me and my end-users would not be trivial. 

Creating a consortium [akin to the NAP model] of small ISP's could
easily resolve this problem, if all address space allocated to each
ISP was contiguous and could be aggregated to a larger prefix.

This has been suggested on numerous occasions.

- paul