Date: Fri, 05 Apr 1996 17:12:24 -0800
To: salo@msc.edu (Tim Salo), nanog@merit.edu
From: "Kent W. England" <kwe@6SigmaNets.com>
Subject: RE: CIDR,Sprint and the Big Guys.>Perhaps, the [anticipated] consolidation of ISPs will be a significant
>event in the efforts to control routing table size.
>
Do we need address leasing to hasten that process or should we let the
market decide? In any event, anyone buying up a bunch of ISPs will have a
difficult time cleaning up the aggregation of addresses they inherit.
Obviously, cleaning up the current swamp is difficult.
On the other hand, should consolidation occur, presumably a smaller number
of larger ISPs would use a smaller number of larger address blocks, (plus
or minus issues of the magnitude of dual-homing and changing upstream
providers).
-tjs