At 11:58 PM 3/1/97 -0500, Craig Nordin wrote:

Isn't there a way, if the InterNIC and the larger backbone operators cooperated, that organizations having smaller armounts of address space would not be filtered out?

Or is it technically impossible?

This isn't so much an issue of warm-fuzzy technical fairness, more than it is one of provider (interior) network stability, and when it comes to the latter, the providers who are filtering on prefix length are doing so because they feel that it is in their best interest. I would suggest that the largest percentage of flapping prefixes in the global routing system belong to prefixes longer than /19. This is not to say that they could be economical incentivized to accept routes for arbitrarily long prefixes. US$.02, - paul