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       Title     : Financial Incentives for Route Aggregation and Efficient
                   Address Utilization in the Internet: A Framework        
       Author(s) : Y. Rekhter, P. Resnick, S. Bellovin
       Filename  : draft-bellovin-piara-framework-00.txt
       Pages     : 12
       Date      : 06/12/1996

The ability to sustain continuous growth of the Internet is affected both 
by the ability of the Internet routing system to scale, and by the 
availability of IP addresses that are unique within the Internet.  We argue
that scalable routing and efficient address space utilization should not be
treated as two separate problems, but as two inter-related facets of a 
single problem - how to scale the Internet.              
             
Unfortunately, scalable routing and efficient address space utilization do 
not come for free: they sometimes require renumbering of existing hosts to 
new addresses or otherwise undersirable address allocations. We propose to 
use financial incentives rather than just the existing methods of 
persuasion and coercion to motivate IP address assignment that is efficient
both with respect to its suitability for aggregation (via hierarchical 
routing), and with respect to the address space utilization. We argue that 
where tradeoffs must be made between conflicting goals, use of financial 
incentives will permit local decisions that take into account local 
differences, thus leading to better choices than could be made by any 
centralized administrative body.                                           

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