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Re: PI vs PA Address Space

  • From: Michael F. Nittmann
  • Date: Fri May 19 20:25:47 1995 
the proposal comes from a provider that cannot route around a cable cut 
for now more than 24h.

Mike

On Fri, 19 May 1995 [email protected] wrote:

> 
> >>> As an aside, is anyone else besides Sprint behind this /18
> >>> model?
> 
> The hard core /18 model ("we won't accept prefixes greater than length
> 18") is untenable and throws out one of CIDR's features.  It does not
> allow for a time period where a customer is migrating from provider A
> to provider B and will have end systems living within both provider
> based prefixes at any instant during the migration.  
> 
> The user community should not be forced into flash cuts, and the
> providers can make the needed overlap period of time work for bounded
> time frames.  
> 
> At a minimum, the model needs to be /18+E (E==entropy due to customer
> migrations).
> 
> peter
> 

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