At 06:57 PM 6/8/97 PDT, Randy Bush wrote:
Should InterNIC grant small ISPs (this one serves a rural area between Dallas and Oklahoma City) fully routable and portable IP space?
You are talking about a scarce resource. The InterNIC should allocate as much space as can be justified for real use. We discussed this to death a long time ago.
randy
Has the situation changed since a long time ago? What scare resources, if any, should a rural ISP serving a rural area of say, 250K people, be allocated? Should the rural ISP be allowed the scarce resources to multi-home with portable IP space and thus be allowed to offer diversity and redundancy to customers? Your thoughts and those of others are appreciated. Regards, Larry Vaden, founder and CEO help-desk 903-813-4500 Internet Texoma, Inc. <http://www.texoma.net> direct 903-870-0365 bringing the real Internet to rural Texomaland fax 903-868-8551 Member ISP/C, TISPA and USIPA pager 903-867-6571