salo@msc.edu (Tim Salo) wrote: It would appear that there may also be a strong argument that the tremendous proliferation of [small] ISPs is a significant contributor to the growth of the size of the Internet routing tables. Tim, this smells like an opportunity to me. To my regret I've been observing the decline of the supercomputer industry for years due to a lack of demand (KSR, CM5). Can't the supercomputer gurus apply some of their extensive knowledge gained in a super-router? Wolfgang