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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...

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