[ppml] [address-policy-wg] Re: article about IPv6 vs firewalls vs NAT in arstechnica (seen on slashdot)

[Martin Hannigan]

----- Original Message -----
From: Jeroen Massar <jeroen at unfix.org>
To: Woeber at CC.UniVie.ac.at
Cc: ppml at arin.net, address-policy-wg at ripe.net
Subject: Re: [ppml] [address-policy-wg] Re: article about
IPv6 vs firewalls vs NAT in arstechnica (seen on slashdot)
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 19:05:44 +0100

> Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote:
> [..]
> > I simply take it as living proof that almost nobody
> > really cares about seeing some (50..)70K+ routes more or
> less in their boxes, these days.
> 
> See it is a business trick: when there are say 300k routes
> in the routing tables, you are forcing your competition to
> also carry that amount of routes in their tables, that
> means your competition will also have to buy fast new cool
> routers with a lot of memory. This makes various vendors
> happy, but it also takes care of emptying your
> competitions pocket books. When they spend all their cash
> on routers, they won't be able to invest in other things
> or need to up their prices, resulting in those customers
> coming to you etc etc etc. Economics 101. Has not much to
> do with "The Internet" any more.
> 
> The road to monopoly has many routes ;)


The hyperbole is so thick that it can be cut with a
chainsaw.

-M<