RE: exponential route prefix growth, was: Re: The Cidr Report

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () MHSC com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timothy Brown [mailto:tcb () ga prestige net]
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 1:32 PM
>
> > What 'threshold' has triggered this sudden event, with routes going

> Which sucks, because the better choice for them is to ignore 
> the political
> concerns and do the technically responsible thing, which is 
> bring their
> content or resources, whatever they are, closer to points in 
> the Internet
> where they are most commonly used.  There's really very 
> little to be gained
> by announcing their own space as opposed to having a 
> collocation provider
> with good connectivity providing them blocks out of their space.

au contrare. There's LOTs to be gained. 

> They just come from a larger enterprise mentality where they 
> work very hard
> to make sure all the resources are centralized and controlled 
> by one or two
> people.

The key word is "control" and the right form of responsibility is
"fiscal", not "technical".