[129746] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Fri Sep 17 17:13:04 2010
In-Reply-To: <67B4FDC4-295F-4242-B622-B4C4203B5C03@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:12:54 -0700
From: Bill Stewart <nonobvious@gmail.com>
To: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrot=
e:
> No, they bought AT&T, which [...] =A0But yes, SBC is the controlling piec=
e of the new AT&T.
>
> As for the two /8s -- not quite. =A0Back in the 1980s, AT&T got 12/8. =A0=
We soon learned that we couldn't make good use of it, since multiple levels=
of subnetting didn't exist. =A0We offered it back to Postel in exchange fo=
r 135/8 -- i.e., the equivalent in class B space -- but Postel said to keep=
12/8 since no one else could use it, either. =A0This was all long before a=
ddresses were tight. =A0When AT&T decided to go into the ISP business, circ=
a 1995, 12/8 was still lying around, unused except for a security experimen=
t I was running.* =A0 =A0However, a good chunk of 135/8 went to Lucent (now=
Alcatel-Lucent) in 1996, though I don't know how much.
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=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=A0 Thanks;=A0 =A0=A0 Bill
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