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Re: ARIN allocating /20 netblocks?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Sat May 16 21:21:18 1998

Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 20:11:32 -0500
From: Karl Denninger  <karl@mcs.net>
To: Michael Shields <shields@crosslink.net>
Cc: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>, jamie@ais.net,
        Jeremiah Kristal <jeremiah@fs.IConNet.NET>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <g6af8h7o16.fsf@daedalus.crosslink.net>; from Michael Shields on Sun, May 17, 1998 at 12:14:25AM +0000

On Sun, May 17, 1998 at 12:14:25AM +0000, Michael Shields wrote:
> In article <19980516152145.42206@mcs.net>,
> Karl Denninger  <karl@mcs.net> wrote:
> > Why do you need to renumber out of previous space if MCI doesn't have to
> > when they get a bigger block handed to them?
> 
> Like MCI, Jon will not need to renumber out of a /14.  You only have
> to ever renumber out of small blocks.  A /20 is not hard to renumber.
> -- 
> Shields, CrossLink.

Ok, so I only lose 16 T1 customers instead of 1024.

Of course, those 16 represent half of my annual revenue at that point.

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