[16923] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN allocating /20 netblocks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean M. Doran)
Sun May 17 08:01:25 1998
From: "Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org>
To: jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net, karl@mcs.net
Cc: arin-council@arin.net, jamie@ais.net, jeremiah@fs.IConNet.NET,
nanog@merit.edu
Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 04:26:45 -0700
Karl Denninger writes:
| Used previous allocation in < 3 months = Add 2 bits to the size
| (ie: Used a /19 in > 3 months, get a /17 next time)
|
| Used previous allocation in < 6 months = Add 1 bit to the size
| (ie: Used a /19 in < 6 months, get a /18 next time)
|
| Used previous allocation >= 6 months, <= 1 years = Same size
|
| Used previous allocation >= 1 year = Decrease one bit size UNLESS
| you were at a /19, in which case we give you another /19
|
...
| So we just got Mr. Big on the net - completely - with less than a half-dozen
| announcements.
This RIPE-like scheme is an extremely good one, and it would
be a fantastic idea for ARIN to continue evolving towards an
allocation policy very much like this.
Sean.
