Re: economies of scale (was Re: solution to NAT...)

["James P. Salsman" <bovik at best.com>]

Keith,

You are certainly correct:

> We are accustomed to thinking of conservation as a Good Thing,
> but an effective conservation plan can actually make a system 
> less able to cope with fluctuations in load.

That reminds me of another economic analogy to a contempoary 
internet engineering problem:  multihoming's impact on the 
rounting table size in relation to the impact of multiple providers
on the efficiency of health care.

With increasing multihoming, the edge-network routing table size 
also increases, causing a lack of efficiency in routing which 
can have a significant impact on saturated network health.  So, 
some people work towards the aggregation of routes by careful 
renumbering when possible.  (RFC 2519)

Similarly, if health care is limited and the destitute poor begin 
infecting the otherwise wealthy, then increasing medical costs 
will soon become very inefficient, overwhelming beneficial effects 
of unregulated free-market competition.

Therefore, it is necessary to aggregate medical care to achieve 
the best possible economies of scale.  Who is working towards this?

  http://www.allies-now.com

Cheers,
James