North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: [NIC-960209.1757] Routing Problem (fwd)
Simon, That's what CIDR is all about; the geographical allocation of addresses/prefixes at the point of Internet connectivity for the purposes of aggregation. If there is no sanity in address allocation, we cannot solve the problem. - paul At 01:15 AM 2/13/96 +0000, Simon Chan wrote: >The unfortunate requirement of such scheme to work is that >all address space allocated to the small ISP's has to be contiquous so that it >could be aggregated to a larger prefix under an autonomous system. >Given the completely arbitrary manner adopted by the Internic's >address allocation policy, (eg. 4 C's to ISP A, skip a few C's, 8 C's >to ISP B where A and B can be 4,000 miles apart) it is safe to assume >that the small chunks of C class addresses are geographically >dispersed throughout the States with many holes still unassigned or >unaccounted for. If you are talking about swamp, this is it. >However, a survey for how those chunks of address got broken up into >many different places perhaps can help in the direction of finding >such solution. If these small IP pieces can be grouped together >according to their geographic locations, there is chance that some >broken chunks may be pieced together to form large enough piece by >pure luck. If such solution exists, I am sure someone would be >interested in forming such regional consortiums to help salvage the once lost >IP addresses. > >
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