[2049] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Allocation of IP Addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Thu Mar 14 00:17:15 1996
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 22:09:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: "David R. Conrad" <davidc@apnic.net>
cc: Dorian Kim <dorian@cic.net>, "'com-priv list'" <com-priv@psi.com>,
"'NANOG List'" <nanog@merit.edu>,
"'NIC Registry list'" <nic-registry@internic.net>
In-Reply-To: <199603140407.NAA25884@teckla.apnic.net>
On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, David R. Conrad wrote:
> I don't see the point. If you are going to propose using a reserved
> class A, why not use net 10?
The /16 would be reserved but not actually used. Then after a
probationary period if the ISP shows that they deserve the /16, then they
get to use it. If not, they lose it and have to continue running their
NAT indefinitely.
The /16's are reserved out of the old Class A space and nobody is 100%
sure that those addresses can be safely sliced and diced into longer
prefixes than /8. But this proposal ensures that when a /16 is released,
the ISP already has a NAT system in place and if we find out that
terrible things happen, they can just hook their NAT back up.
If it turns out that the old Class A is simply not globally usable, we
can still allocate it to companies to use behind a NAT so that only the
ISP's and NSP's need to deal with the mess on the global side.
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