shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

Mon Oct 17 16:44:08 UTC 2005

>> ...the necessary evil called CIDR.  evil because it locked customers
>> into their providers, entrenched the existing large providers
>> against future providers, and made it hard or impossible for the
>> average endusing company to multihome.
>
> Uh, perhaps I'm being dense, but how does moving masking off byte
> boundaries have any of the above effects?

Bill,

CIDR also changed allocation policies and created the notions of PA  
and PI space.

Tony