Re: Vote NO on R-L-G IP Address Allocation proposal

don provan <sgiblab!novell.com!troi!donp@uucp-gw-2.pa.dec.com> Wed, 03 February 1993 22:04 UTC

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From: don provan <sgiblab!novell.com!troi!donp@uucp-gw-2.pa.dec.com>
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Subject: Re: Vote NO on R-L-G IP Address Allocation proposal
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In article <9302030826.aa02819@IETF.CNRI.Reston.VA.US> vcerf@CNRI.Reston.VA.US (Vinton G. Cerf) writes:
>One of the major problems is that the Internet does not have
>the same fan-out at the terminating points as the telephone
>network does.

I would have thought the larger consideration was that the Internet
authorities don't have the luxury of telling people how and where
they may connect to the network.  That is, it's not so much that the
telephone network has these fan-outs, but that they could *dictate*
the fan-outs, as well as every other aspect of the topology and its
relation to the addressing structure.
						don provan
						donp@novell.com

Re: Vote NO on R-L-G IP Address Allocation propos… don provan