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......... Gordon Cook is rumored to have said:
]
] Avi pointed out:
]
] The swamp is basically the old "Classful" address space.
] What Sean did was to say "You can use your old 'Class C's
] but I have to stop the table-size growth in *new allocations*".
]
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] Then apparently I have misunderstood what the swamp was/is. I thought it
] was just an unaggregated area and didn't understand why. Is there text
] somewhere that explains very clearly the swamp and the policies attached
] there to?
I see a question that says why was it not aggregated?
It wasn't aggregate because at the time of dispersion, there was
no need to allocate, routing table growth was not a significant
factor in internet address allocation.
] Is the swamp then bounded by class c addresses warranted as routable when
] they were handed out? Are you saying then that the defaultless core
] routability of class c's from the swamp is, as of now, guaranteed?
Perhaps I'm a bit of a wild card, but I don't see any IP address
as routable based on official policy or origin of assignment. IP
Address space is routable because each [I|N]SP that might have
occasion to route the space, agrees to. They agree to because it
makes economic sense, or, in some cases *cough sprint* it does not
make economic sense to route 207.99.99.0/24 (apologies to NAC.NET,
I just made the net up, and I know they have a /18, so the example
is invalid...) . I firmly believe that explainable economic decisions
are in the best interest of the net, and if they're not, the
company making poor economic decisions will leave through natural
[economic] selection.
] Of the class cs from the swamp how many are now being routed at the
] defaultless core? HOW MANY ADDITIONAL CLASS Cs FROM THE SWAMP ARE THERE
] FOR WHICH THE OWNERS COULD DEMAND ROUTING?
Lots.
] In other words are these 5,000 new class c's just the beginning? Or are
] they, hopefully the end?
Neither, they're a holdover from a more carefree time...
At least, that's my 3 minute rant before my next meeting... 
-alan
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]
] Avi writes:
]
] Umm, Gordon, read what Paul said.
]
] He was saying that he suspected that the new /24s are in the swamp.
] And even Sprint listens to any /24s from there.
]
] The swamp is basically the old "Classful" address space.
] What Sean did was to say "You can use your old 'Class C's
] but I have to stop the table-size growth in *new allocations*".
]
] Avi
]
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