[2047] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Allocation of IP Addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorian Kim)
Wed Mar 13 23:46:51 1996
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 23:39:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Dorian Kim <dorian@cic.net>
To: "David C. Kovar" <kovar@NDA.COM>
cc: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>, Jim Browning <jfbb@atmnet.net>,
"'com-priv list'" <com-priv@psi.com>, "'NANOG List'" <nanog@merit.edu>,
"'NIC Registry list'" <nic-registry@internic.net>
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960314043042.0075eaa0@taz.nda.com>
On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, David C. Kovar wrote:
> This strikes me as being discriminatory against the smaller ISPs. The
> customers are looking for stability and, from their point of view, being
> forced to renumber several times along with the ISP is unstable and costly.
> They'll look to ISPs who will not force them to renumber, the ones with a
> /18 or smaller already.
There always will be disadvantages of being small. This is true in every
market.
> Do you truly believe there is no way to avoid the forced renumbering
> problem for the smaller ISPs?
There is no way to avoid renumbering. Every other plausible proposal I've
seen have been renumbering under a different guise.
-dorian
