[19865] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Your class 'B' address space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Tue Sep 29 13:30:15 1998
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 10:08:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199809282021.QAA02300@redfox.fox-den.com>
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, John Todd wrote:
> I think the number of sites that have this particular situation is very small
> and does not justify such an enormous waste of address space to circumvent the
> filters on these particular providers. Small address advertisements (>/19)
> are
> sufficient to provide acceptable redundancy in a multi-homed environment.
If the registries would start allocating address space that has been
recovered from the swamp to this sort of company, then the problem would
be solved. If a company needs multihoming capability but will never use
more than a /23 then what is wrong with reusing swamp space?
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