Re: Sequentially assigned IP addresses--why not?

[Bill Manning]

% On the other hand even doing
% nothing will be a problem - we appear to have resumed exponential
% growth of the routing system again, presumably as multi-homing at
% the edges starts to be more and more common.
% 
%    Geoff Huston


As predicted back in the cidr development days.  people multihome for
a number of reasons, not the least of which is the avoidance of a single
point of failure. Turning the routing system into the functional equivalent
of monoply pyramid will bring down the rath of the regulators, even if there
is "nothing" we can do.

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--bill