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Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@ISI.EDU)
Tue Jan 30 12:04:34 1996

From: bmanning@ISI.EDU
To: freedman@netaxs.com (Avi Freedman)
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 08:55:03 -0800 (PST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199601270623.BAA07134@netaxs.com> from "Avi Freedman" at Jan 27, 96 01:23:22 am

> 
> > 
> > 
> > I can't speak for Matthew, but many smallish ISPs have legacy /24
> > allocations from using Livingston Portmasters and IRXes before they
> > could do CIDR (I *think* they solved that problem, but I don't know
> > for sure).
> > 
> > -george
> > 
> 
> I think the problem was with variable-sized subnets within a /24, not
> with subnetting at all, but I could be wrong.
> 

	Please review RFC 1879 for the particulars on certain
	existing equipment providers and their abilities to
	support near-term addresing proposals.

-- 
--bill

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