Hey, anyone who wanna help improve the net stability?

Thu Sep 5 19:31:47 UTC 1996

Gordon, please make your messages easier to read or people will /dev/null
them.  It's really not clear what, in the message below, are the new
questions/points...

Avi

> Avi pointed out:
> 
> The swamp is basically the old "Classful" address space.
> What Sean did was to say "You can use your old 'Class C's
> but I have to stop the table-size growth in *new allocations*".
> 
> =========
> Then apparently I have misunderstood what the swamp was/is.  I thought it
> was just an unaggregated area and didn't understand why.  Is there text
> somewhere that explains very clearly the swamp and the policies attached
> there to?
> 
> Is the swamp then bounded by class c addresses warranted as routable when
> they were handed out?  Are you saying then that the defaultless core
> routability of class c's from the swamp is, as of now, guaranteed?
> 
> Of the class cs from the swamp how many are now being routed at the
> defaultless core?  HOW MANY ADDITIONAL CLASS Cs FROM THE SWAMP ARE THERE
> FOR WHICH THE OWNERS COULD DEMAND ROUTING?
> 
> In other words are these 5,000 new class c's just the beginning? Or are
> they, hopefully the end?
> =========
> 
> Avi writes:
> 
> Umm, Gordon, read what Paul said.
> 
> He was saying that he suspected that the new /24s are in the swamp.
> And even Sprint listens to any /24s from there.
> 
> The swamp is basically the old "Classful" address space.
> What Sean did was to say "You can use your old 'Class C's
> but I have to stop the table-size growth in *new allocations*".
> 
> Avi
> 
> 
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