[1575] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yakov Rekhter)
Fri Jan 26 13:51:13 1996
To: Daniel Karrenberg <Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.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 96 19:04:40 +0100."
<9601261804.AA20473@ncc.ripe.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 96 10:35:05 PST
From: Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com>
Daniel,
> > Would the RIPE NCC provide such non-aggregatable allocations
> > irrespective of how many hosts would be covered by such an
> > allocation ?
>
> Sorry, lack of clarity because of failing neurons.
> What I meant to say was "1024 CIDRable allocations".
> Or simply "allocations".
>
> The point is that we will guarantee that our allocation policy will
> create no more than 1024 allocations per /8 and therefore not
> necessitate by itself more routes than that. Currently our allocation
> sizes are /19 - /16. If you think about it a little you will see that
> it is easy to achieve.
>
> And just in case: Yes the minimum allocation is /19 irrespective
> of the number of hosts covered. Note: allocation != assignment.
OK, so just to make it clear, if a customer would come to the RIPE NCC
and the customer has just 1 host you would still allocated him /19 block.
Correct ?
Yakov.
