[1763] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Galbavy)
Wed Jan 31 04:41:27 1996
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 09:11:04 +0000 (GMT)
From: Peter Galbavy <peter@demon.net>
Cc: Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.net, nanog@merit.edu, cidrd@iepg.org, iab@isi.edu,
iesg@isi.edu, iana@isi.edu, local-ir@ripe.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960129140753.25976A-100000@okjunc.junction.net> from "Michael Dillon" at Jan 29, 96 02:48:17 pm
> You are the biggest ISP in Europe aren't you? How big? Couldn't you spend
> a few quid on incorporating Demon Internet Services Inc. in the USA?
> Wouldn't you then be eligible for IP addresses from the US Internic?
This has been consdidered I understand... but we want to play the game
and make the rules better, not cheat :-)
> In a classless IPV4 world in which the old Class A address area is in
> production use, would we have enough available IP addresses for providers
> to do this on a large scale assuming that they would have near 100%
> utilization in the blocks that were being allocated statically?
>
> Didn't the experiment with 39/8 show that it was safe to allocate
> classlessly out of the old Class A addresses?
I think so and yes :-)
Regards,
--
Peter Galbavy peter@demon.net
@ Demon Internet phone://44/181/371_3700
http://www.wonderland.org/~peter/
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