PI vs PA Address Space

At 12:21 PM 5/24/95, yakov at watson.ibm.com wrote:
>
>Just small addition to your recommendation: Be aware, the addresses
>you'll get from the NIC may significantly decrease the number of destinations
>you'll be able to reach -- your connectivity is likely to be adversely
>impacted.
>
>Yakov.

Registry Folks;

This is the part that bothers me about the change in assignment policy.

When the InterNIC says "route-ability of your independent address
assignment is not assured" together with "and the blocks we assign to
service providers are assigned with no strings attached to assure global
connectivity" the Registry is giving over a significant part of its raison
d'etre and inviting someone else to come in and restore order if things get
too messy.

The IR must not take the position that service providers may allocate from
their independent block assignments in any manner they choose and without
any requirement to honor the independent assignments of others, including
the IR. The IR must put terms and conditions on global routing along with
the granting of rights to allocate from address blocks.

Without some acceptable terms and conditions on assignment coupled with
route-ability assurances, there will be too much latitude to screw up
global routing and the significant risk that someone else will step in to
help fix the problem in future.

I am not arguing against the need to control the size of the global routing
table. I am arguing that there need to be carefully laid out rules for how
it will be managed and the only hook to accomplish that is with terms and
conditions attached to the assignment of address blocks. There needs to be
an explicit link between block assignment and global route-ability. It
would be better to do this now than try to retro-actively accomplish it if
and when things get out of control.

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