[124608] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: legacy /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Fri Apr 2 20:14:49 2010
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 00:14:14 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
In-Reply-To: <4BB66ED2.6080304@mompl.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 03:25:22PM -0700, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
> Cutler James R wrote:
> >I also just got a fresh box of popcorn. I will sit by and wait
>
> I honestly am not trying to be a troll. It's just everytime I glance
> over the IANA IPv4 Address Space Registry I feel rather annoyed about
> all those /8s that were assigned back in the day without apparently
> realising we might run out.
its well to remember that when they got that space, the minimum
allocation was a /8. you couldn't get anything smaller because
"classful" addressing wasn;t invented yet. Only (much) later could
you get "B" or "C" space... and after classful died in v4, we had
CIDR. IPv6 as effectively reindroduced classful addressing.
> Regards,
> Jeroen
--bill
