Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

[Brian E Carpenter <brian at hursley.ibm.com>]

Rick,

I suspect you didn't read the important bit.

> > it's not the memory.  it's the processing power required which is quite
> > non-linear.

This is not to do with operational accidents. It's to do with generic growth.

However, we should also engineer our systems to be robust during
operational accidents.

  Brian

Rick H Wesson wrote:
> 
> randy,
> 
> just because routers meltdown from leaks and mis-configurations is not a
> reasonable justification for ARIN's tight policies on IPv4 allocations,
> which kim stated earlier was to keep space aggrigated for router memory
> requirements, adding speed and processing power to that definition still
> does not justify the strict policy decisions.
> 
> -rick
> 
> On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Randy Bush wrote:
> 
> > it's not the memory.  it's the processing power required which is quite
> > non-linear.
> >
> > it's not the memory for the /24s in old b space, it's the horrifying *large*
> > and *long* meltdowns caused by inadvertant leakage of bogus announcements of
> > /24s in old b space
> >
> > randy
> >