What triggered ARIN ?

[Jim Fleming]

On Wednesday, March 05, 1997 5:01 PM, John Curran[SMTP:jcurran at bbnplanet.com] wrote:
@ At 17:14 3/5/97, Jim Fleming wrote:
@ >On Wednesday, March 05, 1997 4:01 PM, John Curran[SMTP:jcurran at bbnplanet.com] wrote:
@ 
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@ 
@ Some tens of thousands of additional prefixes is conceivable 
@ from a routing computation and memory size perspective.  Note
@ that under a non-aggregatable allocation strategy, we could 
@ easily see such routes over the course of a single month's 
@ growth in new sites.
@ 

I hate to bring up the domain name debates but this reminds
me of the people that said a year ago that if the legacy Root
Name Servers were opened up to allow TLDs, that TLD registries
would grow like crazy and everyone with a lap-top and a cellular
connection would be selling domain names from their car.

When the rubber hit the road, there were actually very few
companies willing to invest the time and energy into the
industry in hopes of getting a return on their investment.

If you write the rules with precision, you can make anything
happen or not happen. The key has to be that the rules are
objective and applied equally to all.

What if you delegated the space with the requirement that
the net gain/loss on the router tables had to be zero ?
Don't you believe the InterNIC clones can follow rules ?

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Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation

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