[1547] in North American Network Operators' Group
Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Karrenberg)
Fri Jan 26 05:00:04 1996
To: "Robert A. Rosenberg" <hal9001@panix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, cidrd@iepg.org, iepg@iepg.org, iab@isi.edu, iesg@isi.edu,
iana@isi.edu, Local Internet Registries in Europe <local-ir@ripe.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 26 Jan 1996 01:17:32 EST.
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From: Daniel Karrenberg <Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 10:50:59 +0100
> "Robert A. Rosenberg" <hal9001@panix.com> writes:
>
> When you allocate this /19, do you do so at such a boundary that it can be
> converted to a shorter (/18-/17-/16-etc) prefix at a later date ....
Of course we do that. That's why I wrote:
It should be noted that additional allocations are very often
aggregatable with previous ones. So the number of /19 prefixes
announced will decrease over time.
However it is our policy not to make any guarantees about this happening.
Daniel
