[2065] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Allocation of IP Addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Thu Mar 14 07:27:44 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: awsmith@rip.ops.neosoft.com (Andrew Smith)
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 07:22:32 -0500 (EST)
Cc: kovar@NDA.COM, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199603140722.BAA11407@rip.ops.neosoft.com> from "Andrew Smith" at Mar 14, 96 01:22:22 am
> Any NSP that cannot allocate to you at least a /19 worth of networks
> (IF YOU CAN JUSTIFY IT) is not worth using for an ISP who thinks they
> need globally routable address space that they can advertise wherever
> they want sometime in the near future. If you aren't going to get to
> that point...what's the damn problem?
Except that if you give out /19s to newer ISPs with no allocation/use
track record, then the NIC may say "Sorry, you can't get more address
space, you haven't been efficiently using what you were given."
Avi
