[16883] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN allocating /20 netblocks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremiah Kristal)
Fri May 15 16:03:30 1998
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 15:56:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jeremiah Kristal <jeremiah@fs.IConNet.NET>
To: "Mark D. Nagel" <nagel@intelenet.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9118.895260978@intelenet.net>
On Fri, 15 May 1998, Mark D. Nagel wrote:
> One of our customers was recently allocated a /20 netblock from ARIN.
> I had just been ass-u-ming it was a /19 until I cross-checked our
> announcement update with the request from the customer. Is this a
> change in policy (I thought they only allocated /19 or bigger) or did
> I miss something? If the former, are NSPs like Sprint planning to
> update filters to route these new smaller blocks?
ARIN has made a slight change to make it easier for small ISPs to get
provider independant netblocks. They will assign a /20 and reserve the
adjacent /20, the customer is allowed to announce the entire /19.
For further information, please view http://www.arin.net/initial-isp.html
Jeremiah
Jeremiah Kristal
Senior Network Engineer
ICon CMT Corporation
jeremiah@iconnet.net
201-319-5764
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