[16922] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: ARIN allocating /20 netblocks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean M. Doran)
Sun May 17 08:01:24 1998
From: "Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org>
To: jamie@fast.net, karl@mcs.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 04:37:13 -0700
| I imagine stuff like this will just cause more and more customers to move
| into environments with NAT
Using NAT is not a bad thing.
More and more customers will move towards NAT anyway, as NAT features
and implementations improve.
| or encourage them to join the bigger networks
| where renumbering would be less likely.
Karl's assertion is that adopting a RIPE-style system where
for a fee anyone who is an ISP can get a small allocation of
portable space, and add other allocations over time, is a
practical solution. I agree completely.
Sean.
