[20272] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP allocations, renumbering, and RFC 2050
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew)
Thu Oct 8 10:36:39 1998
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 19:59:35 -0500 (CDT)
From: Andrew <aos@insync.net>
To: Scott Gifford <sgifford@tir.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <00f901bdf253$4a1465a0$f8298acd@sgifford.tir.com>
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Scott Gifford wrote:
> A quick read through RFC 2050 (IP Allocation Guidelines) talks about
> this situation in section 2.1:
>
> The ISP
> should allow sufficient time for the renumbering process to be
> completed before the IP addresses are reused.
>
> However, the rep they spoke with at MCI/CW seems to feel that the moment the
> connection is cancelled, the IP addresses may be reassigned to another
> customer, and they should not expect a grace period for renumbering.
That portion of RFC 2050, I believe, refers to renumbering within the same
ISP, where it's reasonably easy to allow time for customers to renumber.
When a customer is moving from another ISP to you, they're pretty much SOL
when it comes to their old IPs.
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