From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Wed Aug 16 1995 - 17:33:24 EDT
>
> Paul,
>
> Does that mean that all the internet registries no longer allocate
> /24 (or longer) prefixes that have nothing to do with the actual
> Internet topology (these prefixes aka "portable addresses") ? Perhaps
> folks from various Internet registries would be able to answer this
> question.
Immaterial. What matters is if providers continue
to route them.
> CIDR works as long as addresses are assigned in a topologically
> significant fashion. And this precondition is crucial.
Not quite. CIDR works. Routing remains stable
when providers route prefixes in a topological fashion.
>
> Yakov.
>
-- --bill
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