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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 1996 19:35:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Bradley Dunn <dunn@harborcom.net>
To:        Tony Kimball <alk@Think.COM>
Cc:        jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, isp@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Question about networks
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.961009193124.714A-100000@ns2.harborcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <199610091932.OAA21809@compound.Think.COM>

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On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, Tony Kimball wrote:

> Quoth Bradley Dunn on Wed, 9 October:
> : 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?
> 
> On the other hand, in practice one would certainly expect 256 /24s to
> be substantially more expensive than one /16.

Why? If you have a /16 and individual /24s are going for more than a /16,
why would you sell it as a /16 instead of selling the individual /24s? If
anything, I would think a /16 would cost more, because it would be more
desirable than 256 /24s in the case of route filters or route charges.

> I'd also very much like to hear more about IPX proxies.

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/751/ij/home.html
is one.

-BD




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