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:

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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