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Re: Updated ARIN allocation information

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Fri Jan 31 18:59:06 2014

In-Reply-To: <52EC3594.8080304@fud.no>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 18:58:26 -0500
To: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org List" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no> wrote:
> What I fail to understand from this thread is the apparent expectation
> that these smaller-than-/24 microscopic delegations from ARIN will be
> popular.

Hi Tore,

There is every expectation that they will be unpopular. They're a
hedge against the possibility of a grueling last-minute IPv6
conversion following a failed IPv4 market. They're something that can,
with difficulty, be made to work. They serve no other purpose.

Regards,
Bill Herrin



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