
Don't be so sure.

What probably _would_ police these willy-nilly announcements,
however, are prefix-length filters on the various ISP routers. :-)

And again, this could certainly lend itself to folks sic'ing their
lawyers on eacvh other in the name of anti-competitive lawsuits.

A mess ensues that I don't think any of us wishes to see happen.

- ferg


-- <andrew2@one.net> wrote:

> Another somewhat important point is that we also need to conserve
routing entries.  If you make a market for addresses without regard to
routability, you risk  
> creating a situation where you flood the world with /32's.  No thanks. 
>
> Tony  
 
I would think that would tend to police itself.  Even now with things
as they are you're going to have serious reachability problems if you
try to announce anything smaller than a /24.  And if routing tables
suddenly explode, I'd expect that threshold to quickly move in reaction.


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
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