[address-policy-wg] Source of routing table growth

Sun Jul 3 22:14:41 CEST 2011

On Sun, 3 Jul 2011, Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote:

> Some of the participants in this discussion seem to forget, always now 
> and then, that the 'net and the ISPs are not existing for the benefit of 
> themselves, but in order to provide service(s) to the users. Most of the 
> time, the "infinitely distant users" are the primary soure of the money 
> that keeps the 'net, the ISPs, the RIRs (and the scientists) in 
> business. ;-)

Correct, and most users do not have a PI and thus it's unfair to them if 
PI usage increase means their ISP has to swap equipment prematurely.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se