[31169] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why did we do CIDR? (RE: Confussion over multi-homing)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brantley Jones)
Thu Sep 14 19:34:04 2000
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:27:14 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Brantley Jones <bjones@redundant.net>
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At 06:46 PM 9/14/00 -0400, you wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:50:07PM -0700, Sean Donelan wrote:
> > If folks are going to deaggregate the addresses and announce multiple
> routes
> > anyway, why are we going through the pain of ARIN policies. Wouldn't it be
> > better to allocate the appropriately sized address in the first place?
>
> Yes, it would. It would seem ARIN should allocate small blocks on
>a trade-in only policy. You can get a /24, but when you go to a /23 you
>_will_ renumber, and soforth up to a /19 or so, at which time when you need
>more you get an additional prefix.
>
> That way you limit it to 1 route per ASN for small players, and
>everyone can multihome.
>
>--
>Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org
>Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440
>Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org
What an administrative nightmare! Wouldn't it make more sense if ARIN
would at least reserve some space for people saying they need more? They
could always re-allocate it later. Renumbering can be tough, especially if
you're growing fast...
Brantley
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