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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Why does Sprint have address filters again?
On Sun, May 31, 1998 at 12:52:04PM -0700, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: > Guys, > I hate to bring business issues up in a technical forum, but y'all started it. > > There is a definite business case for portable /21's. First off, I > understand the technical need to limit ASN's to /19's so I don't need > lecture #101. However, those limits were set quite some time ago. When can > we reduce them? Has technology stood still? No, it has not. > The need is for service ISP's, as opposed to Internet Access Providers. We > need portability too. Tell me about it. The whole /19 thing started as a bad idea, and has propagated because other people picked up on it and said "yeah, ok" and then formulated policy around it - instead of whacking the first person with a wet noodle. There are some providers out there who think that there's no reason they should have to spend money on RAM and CPU in their core routers. There's a curious correlation between those folks, and the ones with the largest number of route announcements too. :-) -- -- Karl Denninger ([email protected])| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost
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