Re: Draft: PI addressing derived from AS numbers

[Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 08:35:01PM -0800, Michel Py wrote:
> 
> Someone please debunk me if I'm wrong, but I think that swamp space was
> allocated without the current restrictions of either having a distinct
> routing policy or being multihomed. This means that they are a few guys
> that still have swamp space (a class C, for the most part) and don't
> have an AS. These guys are not multihomed, they just have their ISP
> announce their swamp prefix and have the luxury of switching ISPs
> without renumbering, which is exactly what PI is about: one _OWNS_ the
> address.

And presumably these are a bigger hit on the DFZ routing table size than 
multihomers?

Tim