Re: [RRG] Providers and providers

[Scott Brim <swb@employees.org>]

On 8/20/08 9:49 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum allegedly wrote:
> So this isn't a problem. If the average fortune 500 company has 500
> offices in different locations and aggregates those 500 offices into a
> single PA prefix, we end up with 500 prefixes in the routing table. The
> trouble start when they don't act as an ISP and have each office connect
> to the internet independently - but they still want portable address
> space. In that case, we end up with 250k prefixes in the routing table.
> 
> But the bigger problem is what happens with smaller organizations. If a
> fortune 500 company can get X prefixes (where X = 1 or X = number of
> offices) then why wouldn't a smaller company be entitled to the same
> (relative) number of prefixes?

True.

This problem arises when you simultaneously have resistance to
renumbering and routing information being propagated everywhere in
anticipation of use.  The various RRG proposals assume you can get rid
of one or the other.



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