[16567] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Two renumbering questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Tue May 5 11:19:11 1998
Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 10:17:00 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <354EAEE1.5034@meganet.net>; from Brian Wallingford <brian@meganet.net> on Tue, May 05, 1998 at 02:17:05AM -0400
On Tue, May 05, 1998 at 02:17:05AM -0400, Brian Wallingford wrote:
> Joe Provo - Network Architect wrote:
> > If it is a singleton hole in a /18, your most net-friendly action would
> > be to voluntarily renumber. The provider's most net-friendly action
> > would be to indicate it was non-portable.
>
> Why is it so rare to see this type of response?
Because it requires _work_... and as was _just_ noted on the
online-writing list: people are _lazy_.
Cheers,
-- jra
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