The Cidr Report

Fri Feb 11 20:58:23 UTC 2005

Hello Stephen,

> any thoughts on how to fix it?

back to the "smallest allocation" per /8 that the RIRs have published 
and make it part of the MoU at the larger NAPs/exchange points.

> at the large end i'm still without an explanation as to why large 
> networks require so many prefixes - none of them seem to comment?

Commercial reasons? The traffic goes to the 32x/24 instead of the /19. 
Not to mention the BGP customer may go to another provider. You end up 
in discussions (if you get that chance at all) with your sales group 
and look like a dogmatic fool as "other companies do this".

Saving the world works best if the pain is no one's fault - at least 
"not my fault" ;-)

Regards, Marc
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Marc Binderberger    <marc at sniff.de>