number of unaggregated class C's in swamp?

Sat Sep 30 06:08:29 UTC 1995

On Fri, 29 Sep 1995, Noel Chiappa wrote:

> I agree, but the latter does have the advantage of being easier to "police".
> Getting a whole address block under a limit requires the cooperation of
> everyone in the block, whereas filters (as we have seen) are easy to impose...

But may cause a lot of grief in the legal department. If N routes per 
block is a goal, not a hard and fast limit, then a sign that the goal is 
met will be when the Internet is using M /8 blocks and there are M * N 
routes. This could very well mean that providers are negotiating to allow 
N + 400 routes in one block in return for using N - 400 routes in another 
block. 

I think it is better to specify the goal rather than to specify the means 
of attaining that goal so that providers, customers, etc. have some choice.

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