North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: [NIC-960209.1757] Routing Problem (fwd)
At 11:01 PM 2/11/96 -0800, Robert Du Gaue wrote: >> No circularity about it. First, you need customers. Second, if you >> already have enough customers, you get your own IP space. >> >> Until then, you get a small chunk out of somebody else's bigger IP space. > >Yeah right. You try that with a growing business. Then when you finally >get enough users and corporate customers to 'justify' your own 64block and >then give them the news that their entire networks will now need to be >reconfigured how do you think they'll react. If I was that big, the amount >of money it would cost me and my end-users would not be trivial. > Creating a consortium [akin to the NAP model] of small ISP's could easily resolve this problem, if all address space allocated to each ISP was contiguous and could be aggregated to a larger prefix. This has been suggested on numerous occasions. - paul
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