Martin, > On Apr 15, 2015, at 10:01 PM, Martin Hannigan <[email protected]> wrote: > This bar was intended to prevent anyone who wanted their own address space > from getting it and routing it, and contributing to the global routing table. > > Do we have pointers to the list archive to support that? I'd be interesting > to see who proposed it, who supported it and the discussion. The AC has > archives all the way back, IIRC.
IIUC, "this bar" pre-dated the AC (and ARIN). I believe InterNIC had a policy that they would only allocate address space if you could demonstrate you had efficiently utilized the (/20?) address space that had been given to you by your upstream provider. I remember discussions with Kim in which she was quite concerned (with reason) that if InterNIC were to allocate to all comers, the routers of the day (mid-90's) would fall over, resulting in prefix-length filters and other general unpleasantness (e.g., annoying Sean Doran). RIPE-NCC and APNIC, having a relatively smaller customer base (the telcos believed OSI was the One True Future, so there were only those weird academic and entrepreneur types that were looking at this TCP/IP thing), didn't really worry about blowing up the routing tables, rather they were primarily interested in driving increased penetration of that TCP/IP thing. This historic interlude brought to you by a very nice http://www.freemanwinery.com/wine/overview/2011-Russian-River-Valley-Pinot-Noir :) Regards, -drc
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