[168622] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Updated ARIN allocation information
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryan Socha)
Fri Jan 31 19:39:27 2014
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGWd17k-2JZLzHyvRGForfkNpnr791DR7Q5vMh=YG-TWZQ@mail.gmail.com>
From: Bryan Socha <bryan@serverstack.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 19:38:57 -0500
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Cc: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>, "nanog@nanog.org List" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
has it be clarified by arin on why they are going to allocate /28s? seems
a faster way to waste ipv4 space with unusable ip addresses? The only
thing I can think of is micro allocations for IX points.
*Bryan Socha*
Network Engineer
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On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:58 PM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
> 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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