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On Mon, 12 Feb 1996, mike wrote: > Shouldn't we here see how we get our act together, e.g. peering (why in > this community are there people not peering, putting up 'rules' etc, when > peering would just make everyone happy since the routing landscape is way > simpler when there are lots of direct links), and of course, the same > always: instead of creating unnecessary friction to put into the address > allocation mechanism a measure to satisfy building up ISP/NSP businesses. > I agree that there might some people need more restrictive routing, but > restrictions must always be implemented in a way not to create injustice > or even only extra problems. Well, the prefix-filtering policies of the unnamed ISP you mention above is definitely a problem. However, I don't see it as a problem for me, because most ISP's are sensible enough to route that kind of traffic. I look at it as a problem for customers who use that unnamed ISP. Those customers should contact their providers and pressure them to get alternative links (or, in the case they are a direct customer of this unnamed ISP, change to another provider or obtain another link and become multi-homed). I think that right now, we shouldn't be too concerned with "CIDRize or DIE!". At this point, we should be helping other entities out--you're not FORCING them to renumber by making their networks non-routable within one organization--you're screwing your customers out of optimal connectivity to any particular site. The Internet has gotten too much away from the original purpose, to share information. It has gone to a vast commercial marketing symbol, where most companies really don't care about other entities--"Why should we help this group? They're customers of ISP X!" Now, if there's a sincere need to filter, say, because you still use AGS+'s with CSC/3's and 16 MB of RAM and your poor 1988-age equipment can't handle it, then fine... /cah
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