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Re: CIDR Report
From: Danny McPherson <danny () tcb net>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 14:47:29 -0600
None of these are big enough to justify their own backbone operations or to buy a backbone from someone else, or there wouldn't be a problem. Paying scads of extortion money is also problematic (cheaper to simply burn the IP addresses). I am NOT advocating tossing all of that out. I am simply bringing up a problem condition. Please, don't shoot the messenger, or otherwise get defensive (return fire is a bitch).
Nope, all of these are reasonable, the ones that aren't are, for example, where folks have a single connection, or multi-home only to a single provider.
What I am bringing up here is that new, information-age companies, as predicted in MegaTrends over 10 years ago, are now starting to appear. They are very diffused (sparse population, over very large areas of the globe) and have connectivity needs which are both critical, yet very different from click-n-morter customers that the Big8 was built up to handle (either classful or classless). The current architecture is not handeling them very well. The problem is currently in it's infancy, it will get much worse.
I'm not disagreeing with any of this. Actually, I see reliability and availability feeding into all these other issues as well. It just that some of the folks advocating portability and deaggregation are using "route table size doesn't matter anymore" as an argument, when it absolutely does matter, especially if we plan to make the Internet more reliable, and less vulnerable. -danny
Current thread:
- Multi-home I (was CIDR Report), (continued)
- Multi-home I (was CIDR Report) Rural CNE (May 13)
- Re: CIDR Report Christian Nielsen (May 13)
- Re: CIDR Report Vijay Gill (May 13)
- Re: CIDR Report Mark Kent (May 13)
- Re: CIDR Report Geoff Huston (May 13)
- Re: CIDR Report Jeremy Porter (May 14)
- RE: CIDR Report Owen DeLong (May 13)
- Re: CIDR Report Danny McPherson (May 13)
- RE: CIDR Report Roeland Meyer (E-mail) (May 13)
- Re: CIDR Report Randy Bush (May 13)
- Re: CIDR Report Danny McPherson (May 13)
- RE: CIDR Report Roeland M.J. Meyer (May 13)
- Re: CIDR Report ww (May 13)
- Re: CIDR Report Joe Provo - Network Architect (May 14)
- Re: CIDR Report Chris Williams (May 15)
- Re: CIDR Report Adrian Chadd (May 15)
- Re: CIDR Report Chris Williams (May 15)
- RE: CIDR Report Bradly Walters (May 15)
- Re: CIDR Report Chris Williams (May 15)
- RE: CIDR Report Roeland M.J. Meyer (May 13)
- RE: CIDR Report Roeland M.J. Meyer (May 14)