On Sun, May 31, 1998 at 12:52:04PM -0700, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
Guys, I hate to bring business issues up in a technical forum, but y'all started it.
There is a definite business case for portable /21's. First off, I understand the technical need to limit ASN's to /19's so I don't need lecture #101. However, those limits were set quite some time ago. When can we reduce them? Has technology stood still?
No, it has not.
The need is for service ISP's, as opposed to Internet Access Providers. We need portability too.
Tell me about it. The whole /19 thing started as a bad idea, and has propagated because other people picked up on it and said "yeah, ok" and then formulated policy around it - instead of whacking the first person with a wet noodle. There are some providers out there who think that there's no reason they should have to spend money on RAM and CPU in their core routers. There's a curious correlation between those folks, and the ones with the largest number of route announcements too. :-) -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost