> my opinion is that the space in an ISP's routing tables > and the cpu time of their routers belongs to the ISP and > the ISP can (and will) do whatever it wishes with it, as > long as they keep their agreements. the fact that these > are limited resources will quite naturally result in > pressure to limit the scope of advertisement of > non-aggregatable addresses.
this was what happened back in '93 or '94 when a large isp had/chose to install pretty serious prefix length filters to keep their routers from falling over. much flamage, even some rational-seeming discussion. but the point you make was the bottom line. randy -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------