[1690] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Jan 29 15:42:35 1996
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 14:36:33 -0600 (CST)
From: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
To: nanog@merit.edu
>No, this isn't necessarily true. Many providers assume that just
>because they received a /19 or whatever from its upstream ISP they
>will automatically receive a larger block from the InterNIC with
>no questions asked. ISPs must show they've utilized any previously
>allocated blocks (whether from the InterNIC or from its upstream)
>efficiently to receive additional addresses. Once they do this
>than there's no problem receiving additional space. If they have
>not shown proper utilization than in some cases they will receive
>a smaller block to start.
I'm glad to hear the NIC has changed their policy on this since
we asked last year.
--
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
Affiliation given for identification not representation
