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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Sprint's route filters and Europe
Owen, > > >From my (admittedly biased) perspective, it would seem there are two > > options: > > > > A) The socalist approach > > B) The capitalist approach > > > And, generally, I would have to say that for a resource such as IP addresses > and Internet registration services, option A is certainly better suited > to the task at hand. Why option A is "certainly better suited" ? > > Every time someone (who me?) brings up option B, we go chasing merrily > > down one or more of the following ratholes: > > > > 1) we need to conserve route table space, lets charge for that, > > not addresses (irrelevant) > > Not irrelevant. Highly relevant, but not the right solution to that > problem either. Why this is not "the right solution" ? > > > 2) AT&T (or some other evil speculator) will buy up all the > > address space (and ISPs are just going to sit idly by?) > > Depending on the situation, it might be difficult for them to do anything > effective about it. It is a real danger, and could easily occur. Why do you think this is "a real danger, and could easily occur" ? Yakov. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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