[1818] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Fri Feb 2 16:46:28 1996
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@unix1.bart.nl>
To: michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon)
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 22:19:13 +0100 (MET)
Cc: bmanning@isi.edu, nh@ireland.eu.net, jon@branch.com, curtis@ans.net,
jnc@ginger.lcs.mit.edu, G.Huston@aarnet.edu.au, asp@uunet.uu.net,
cidrd@iepg.org, iesg@isi.edu, local-ir@ripe.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960202112327.29917D-100000@okjunc.junction.net> from "Michael Dillon" at Feb 2, 96 11:27:40 am
> On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, Bill Manning wrote:
> You don't neccessarily need addresses returned to solve routing table
> crunch. If contact with the address owner really is impossible, then they
> are not using the addresses on the global Internet and therefore their
> addresses can be aggregated with other live addresses.
I should think the case where someone is NOT using addresses but DOES
announce them is quite rare...