stla registry db issue

Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
25 Dec 1999 14:26:59 -0500


"Michael H. Lambert" <lambert@psc.edu> writes:
> On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Bill Manning wrote:
> > 
> > 	Er, that is pretty much exactly the point I was trying to make.
> > 	If Brian is right and that group is successful in restricting 
> > 	announcements to /29's, how much space is wasted for the sixty
> > 	nodes that form the cluster "www.bigco.com" that has connections
> > 	to 20 major ISPs?
> 
> But is "bigco.com" a transit IPv6 provider?  My understanding is that if
> it isn't, it should never be allocated its own TLA.  It should receive a
> small block from each of its ISPs.  Or am I missing something?

Anyone out there who thinks they can actually prevent GM or Yahoo or
the like from getting their own routes announced should talk to an
anti-trust lawyer.

Perry