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On the Assignment of Provider Rooted Addresses
draft-ietf-pip-provider-addr-00

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (pip WG)
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Author Paul Francis
Last updated 1993-03-22
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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This Internet-Draft is no longer active. A copy of the expired Internet-Draft is available in these formats:

Abstract

There is an ongoing debate in the IETF about the pros and cons of provider versus geographically assigned addresses. This paper describes the characteristics of provider-rooted address assignment, and compares it with geographical address assignment.

Authors

Paul Francis

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