Re: RIPE DNS Hostcount July 1993
Christian Huiteme is right. The x.25 is a well spreaded, well understood, well working and calculable network infrastructure in germany. It is right that for an IP dominated network you can think for an better infrastructure. But the point is not to have the best infrastructure, but to have at least one good. And with the x.25 network (WIN) we have one. So I think it is more right to say: because of this x.25 infrastructure there are so many IP Hosts connected in germany, and not in spite of. Concerning "trouble enhancement layer": There are problems with x.25, but they are resolvable. With every other protocol you have some problems. The way should therefore be to work at the problems and not to condemn a whole protocol. Regards, Joseph
=> So I think it is more right to say: because of this x.25 infrastructure there => are so many IP Hosts connected in germany, and not in spite of. To be very clear, my opinion is "because there is an infrastructure, in spite of this infrastructure being X.25". => Concerning "trouble enhancement layer": => => There are problems with x.25, but they are resolvable. With every other => protocol you have some problems. I think this is the beauty of having a user community. You end up caring for your users, and there are many ways to find a solution. I have some serious technical doubts re: continuing to use at high speed, but I trust you (i.e. the German user community) to pick one of the easy alternatives. There are plenty, e.g. the insertion of dedicated high speed IP links between the major nodes or the gradual switch from X.25 to frame-relay... Christian Huitema
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