pagans at texoma.net principle #3

[Larry Vaden]

At 09:10 PM 7/4/97 -0400, Gordon Cook wrote:
>Lordy larry.....give us a break....please..... you are over simplifying on
>all of your assertions.....

Randy was the one who said routers would fall over, yet routers haven't
fallen over because of the abuse evident in Tony Bates' CIDR report.
Traded one for one, I don't see a problem.  

Mr. Bates states "This lists the "Top 30" players who if they decided to
aggregate their announced classful prefixes at the origin AS level could
make a significant difference in the reduction of the current size of the
Internet routing table. This calculation does not take into account the
inclusion of holes when forming an aggregate so it is possible even larger
reduction should be possible."

Today's data indicates 2,791 router slots could be made available to
Harvard, priori.net, Internet Texoma, et al.

Here's today's data as published at
<http://www.employees.org/~tbates/cidr-report.html#General_Status>:

 --- 04Jul97 ---
ASnum    NetsNow NetsCIDR  NetGain  % Gain   Description

AS174       1148      819      329   28.7%   Performance Systems International
AS2493       766      460      306   39.9%   i*internet
AS3602       556      309      247   44.4%   Sprint Canada Inc.
AS2048       251      120      131   52.2%   LANET-1
AS1691       301      172      129   42.9%   BCTEL
AS6541       186       59      127   68.3%   GTE Intelligent Network Services 
AS3804       248      135      113   45.6%   Bell Solutions
AS1         1032      922      110   10.7%   BBNPLANET
AS1967       186       82      104   55.9%   Middle East Technical University 
AS839        125       26       99   79.2%   North West Territories Regional N
AS701        972      875       97   10.0%   Alternet
AS7195       121       43       78   64.5%   INTERRED
AS816        318      248       70   22.0%   UUNET Canada (ASN-UUNETCA-AS4)
AS2704       256      186       70   27.3%   HOOKUP-NET-A
AS4293       108       44       64   59.3%   IMCI
AS549        250      189       61   24.4%   ONet Backbone
AS5668        72       13       59   81.9%   Century Telephone Inc.
AS4648       190      134       56   29.5%   NZIX 2
AS3561       942      890       52    5.5%   MCI
AS6181        53        4       49   92.5%   FUSE-NET
AS3799        74       26       48   64.9%   IDS
AS97         175      128       47   26.9%   JvNCnet
AS813        208      161       47   22.6%   UUNET Canada (ASN-UUNETCA-AS1)
AS719        565      518       47    8.3%   LANLINK autonomous system
AS4454        74       27       47   63.5%   TNET-AS
AS4763       100       56       44   44.0%   Telstra New Zealand
AS2711        98       57       41   41.8%   SUNBELT-AS
AS271         98       57       41   41.8%   BCnet Backbone
AS3749        75       35       40   53.3%   TECNET
AS225         63       25       38   60.3%   VIRGINIA-AS
                              ----
                              2791

>lets revisit these issues next month ....OK?

Firms are being damaged this month by the status quo.

>> Jump in here and add the third thru nth "compelling reason(s)" acceptable
>> to a federal judge.

Go ahead, Gordon.  I'm waiting on your "compelling reason(s)".