[2066] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Allocation of IP Addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Smith)
Thu Mar 14 07:41:49 1996
From: Andrew Smith <awsmith@rip.ops.neosoft.com>
To: freedman@netaxs.com (Avi Freedman)
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 06:34:27 -0600 (CST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199603141222.HAA24997@netaxs.com> from "Avi Freedman" at Mar 14, 96 07:22:32 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
clarification...this is over time...as opposed to an ISP who would
say "we can't give you any more...go to the NIC" Most larger ISP's
can even reserve a contiguous block for you...and just delegate
parts at a time...
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