[1552] in North American Network Operators' Group
Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Karrenberg)
Fri Jan 26 07:09:39 1996
To: Ronald Khoo <ronald@office.demon.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, cidrd@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 09:31:10 GMT.
<9601260931.aa08211@office.demon.net>
From: Daniel Karrenberg <Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 12:59:53 +0100
> Ronald Khoo <ronald@office.demon.net> writes:
> Here's a suggestion for one simple rule. "Where delegating address space
> to a provider registry, a) never delegate a block smaller than any
> existing PA block already delegated, and b) once 3 such blocks are
> delegated, always delegate a block at least 4 times bigger".
While sounding fine in general, this assumes ever increasing growth
of ISPs. An assumption easily proven invalid by counterexample.
Daniel
