[1587] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vincent J. Bono)
Fri Jan 26 21:07:52 1996
From: "Vincent J. Bono" <VBONO@hq.mai.net>
To: cidrd@iepg.org, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 20:57:00 EST
Reply-to: vbono@hq.mai.net
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> On Fri, 26 Jan 1996, Yakov Rekhter wrote:
>
> > Forrest,
> >
> > > The only problem this leaves is how to decide who gets an /18...
> >
> > That is a *very good question*. Different answers to this question
> > have *quite different* implications on the address space utilization.
>
> My personal opinion is that you err on the side of giving someone an /18
> that doesn't need one, However you DO need to be careful about assigning the
> space. The general qualifications I would imagine are:
>
> 1) ISP's assigning (non-portable?) address space to non-dialup customers,
> on a fairly regular basis.
>
> 2) Large-ish companies which of themselves would need the /18.
>
> 3) Anyone who is multi-homed on a "permanent" basis. (Probably
> mostly covered by 1&2)
>
> -forrest
How about trying to prevent the static assignment of addresses to
dial-in customers? This chews IP space like there was no tomorrow...
