At Fri, 17 May 1996 10:50:17 -0700, Bruce Toback <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
[snip...]
>Going back to the original suggestion, if you go to NIC and get your very
>own Class C, any ISP who connects your network to the Internet has to see
>to it that all the hundreds of backbone routers administered by dozens of
>companies that Gavin mentioned have your address in them. If you accept
>the ISP's CIDR address assignment, they only have to change their own
>routers. The extra work is the cause of the ISP's reluctance and/or price
>increase.
 
Gee, doesn't this sound like a job that could be automated using computers? %^)
 
Anyone know the status of the proposal for updating to larger IP addresses
(8 octets, yes?)?  I thought it was to be voted on mid-year, but can't be
sure.  Hopefully, this will provide for geographical routing as well as
other heirarchies, easing the load on routers and network backbones.
 
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