Re: The Big Squeeze

[Michael Dillon <michael () memra com>]

On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Craig  Nordin wrote:

> > > Shouldn't the big boys ... be forced to come up with a fairer solution?
> > by who?
>
> An even playing field where those who can only get a few class C addresses
                                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
No such thing. Or did you mean "... where those with longer prefixes are...)

> are not excluded from multiple peering points.  I think that this is fairer
> to *everyone*.

Check the dictionary definition of the word "peer" as used in Canada, the
USA and Australia, *NOT* Britain. Although the British use of the word
does have some relevance if you understand the history behind the House of
Lords.

> So far, we have two unilateral decisions by those powerful enough to 
> make it stick.  InterNIC protects address space, and Sprint (and others)
> protect router memory.

The Internic hasn't made any unilateral decisions. You might want to check
RFC2050 which can be found at http://www.arin.net in the "Recommended
Reading" section.

> Isn't there a way, if the InterNIC and the larger backbone operators 
> cooperated, that organizations having smaller armounts of address space
> would not be filtered out?

If you simply want to avoid the filters, use address space in your
upstream provider's aggregate.

Michael Dillon                   -               Internet & ISP Consulting
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