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RE: CIDR,Sprint and the Big Guys.

  • From: Tim Salo
  • Date: Fri Apr 05 23:19:18 1996

> Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 17:12:24 -0800
> To: salo@msc.edu (Tim Salo), nanog@merit.edu
> From: "Kent W. England" <kwe@6SigmaNets.com>
> Subject: RE: CIDR,Sprint and the Big Guys.
> 
> At 08:25 AM 4/5/96 -0600, Tim Salo wrote:
> >Perhaps, the [anticipated] consolidation of ISPs will be a significant
> >event in the efforts to control routing table size.
> >
> Do we need address leasing to hasten that process or should we let the
> market decide?  In any event, anyone buying up a bunch of ISPs will have a
> difficult time cleaning up the aggregation of addresses they inherit.

Obviously, cleaning up the current swamp is difficult.

On the other hand, should consolidation occur, presumably a smaller number
of larger ISPs would use a smaller number of larger address blocks, (plus
or minus issues of the magnitude of dual-homing and changing upstream
providers).

-tjs





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