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Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
From: jnc () ginger lcs mit edu (Noel Chiappa)
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 96 15:00:33 -0500
From: Geoff Huston <G.Huston () aarnet edu au> it will be economically infeasible IF we continue with this strange system of zero dollar interconnections we use as a peering model. ... In the same way that giving away IP addresses and giving away IP routing can only be described as a very bad case of irrational behaviour, especially when the underlying resource is under stress ... then I'd also note that giving away transit is similarly a case completely irrational behaviour! All this points to a desperate need for a more realistic economic structure to be used within a number of key aspects of Internet infrastructure. Geoff, while I sort of agree with you, please note that the current "free" models in all these areas do have one real advantage, which is that they are simple. Perhaps we will need "more realistic economic structure[s]", but I can more or less guarantee you that those will be more complex as well. Also, that complexity has a cost, which also has to be figured in. (The classic example is long-distance telephone service, where the cost of creting the bill is said to be far larger than the cost of the underlying service.) Finally, given past history, I suspect that the 'Net community, and particularly the 'Net technical community, is going to have a painful transition, on the emotional level and others, to this brave new world of more commercial structures, and the inevitable technical impacts that causes. That has certainly been the case in every such step in the past... Noel
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- Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations, (continued)
- Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations Scott Huddle (Jan 30)
- Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations Geoff Huston (Jan 30)
- Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jan 30)
- Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations Brett D. Watson (Jan 30)
- Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations Vadim Antonov (Jan 30)
- Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations Robert A. Rosenberg (Jan 31)
- Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations Robert A. Rosenberg (Jan 31)
- Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations Christian Huitema (Jan 31)
- Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations Yakov Rekhter (Jan 31)
- Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations George Herbert (Jan 31)
- Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations Yakov Rekhter (Jan 31)
- Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations Noel Chiappa (Jan 31)
- Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations Jon Zeeff (Jan 31)
- Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations Noel Chiappa (Jan 31)
- Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations Noel Chiappa (Jan 31)
- Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations Sean Doran (Jan 31)
- Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations George Herbert (Jan 31)
- Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations Dennis Ferguson (Jan 31)
- Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations George Herbert (Jan 31)
- Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations George Herbert (Jan 31)
- Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations Scott Huddle (Jan 30)
- Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations Vadim Antonov (Jan 31)
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