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From: Robert Shady <rls@mail.id.net>
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Subject: Re: Question about networks
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961009103330.11955A-100000@ns2.harborcom.net> from Bradley Dunn at "Oct 9, 96 10:49:09 am"
To: dunn@harborcom.net (Bradley Dunn)
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 15:59:52 -0400 (EDT)
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> > > : What do you think of this ?
> > > 
> > > I think that if you send me their domain, I'll filter all their traffic.
> > > Routing must be free to everyone, or there is no Internet and we can
> > 
> > Routing, yes, delegation of address space, I want to say yes too, but it
> > is "hard" for an ISP to get address space, and some may pass this on to
> > the customer in the form of a charge.
> 
> I think any plan to charge for address space has to be accompanied by
> charges per route. If not, what are the incentives to aggregate?
> 
> For example, let's say that an organization needs a /16. Let's say there
> is a market for addresses, but they find it is cheaper to buy 256 /24s
> instead of buy one /16. What is the incentive for them to get the /16?
> 
> The answer may be management considerations or internal routing
> efficiency, but I think that if a market for addresses becomes reality,
> people will expect any addresses they buy to be routable.

I'd have to agree..  There are way too many customers out there grabbing
large chunks of address space that they have NO intentions of ever using.

We give out /27's by default (32 IP's), and have only had about 2% of our
customers ever request (or need) more, and we do have some fairly large
corporations on the net right now...

	-- Rob
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