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Frankly it needs to be at least a little bit of a pain to get PI space. As the post briefly mentions, every prefix announced consumes memory in every router on
by magila 5y ago
Frankly it needs to be at least a little bit of a pain to get PI space. As the post briefly mentions, every prefix announced consumes memory in every router on the internet. If everyone had their own PI space it would literally break the internet.
- salawat 5y ago>If everyone had their own PI space it would literally break the internet. That's an odd way of saying "spurring innovation in the realm of internet routing implementations! Damn middleboxers. Always trying to keep the little guy off the net!
- icedchai 5y agoI have a legacy /24 that predates ARIN. I know several other local "early internet" users that also have their own netblocks. Back then, all you had to do was fire off an email. The company name didn't even have to be real.