Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations

Wed Jan 31 01:32:44 UTC 1996

People on this list of lists seem to be focussing on squeezing more
aggregation out of assignment and routing policy's.

But that won't work. The Internet isn't organized in a geographical way nor
in a very hierarchical way.

There are less than 2000 Autonomous Systems, but more than 30000 routes.
That means an average of 15 routes per AS. That's the real problem. And
we know how to fix it too: renumber.

But whatever happens, the routingtable will continue to grow. Get used to
it. At present I can still run full routing with only a Cisco 2514 so the
problem is hardly as big as some people (Sprint...) like to tell themselves
and the rest of us.

We pay those backbone people big money, so either they do their job and
quit complaining about their overloaded CPU's, tight memory and other stuff
or they find themselves another line of work.

I'm getting sick and tired of reading how everybody will bend over backwards
to find a way to live with an utterly ridiculous policy of some dinosaur
company with a flawed network because they pay their lawyers more than their
engineers.

Maybe they could get away with that in the good old phonebusiness, but not
on the Internet.

Iljitsch