> Pekka Savola wrote: > Or perhaps you should describe in detail what the term would > be useful for in this context?
There different things involved: - Allocation policies, which is "We give a /32 to Joe for this reason and a /35 to Jane for that reason". - Aggregation policies, which is "All networks matching criteria xyz must aggregate at the /xx boundary". - Addressing architecture, which does not define how to do it but what is is. The point I am trying to make here is that we need a name or acronym for "ISPs that receive their addresses directly from a RIR". I am not saying that "TLA" is the best definition, but it does fit, regardless of allocation policies and aggregation policies. There was a reason it was defined in RFC2373 and the changes to draft-ietf-ipngwg-addr-arch-v3-07.txt have not changed this, AFAIK. I am not proposing to define "TLA" or whatever we come up with as an aggregation policy, but as the concept of ISPs that receive their blocks directly for a registry. How big the block they get is an allocation policy issue, where they aggregate is an aggregation policy issue, who they are is an addressing architecture issue. Michel. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
