[3157] in North American Network Operators' Group
BBN's class As [was RE: Address allocation stats]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent W. England)
Wed Jun 12 18:53:26 1996
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 15:53:31 -0700
To: hinden@ipsilon.com (Bob Hinden)
From: "Kent W. England" <kwe@6SigmaNets.com>
Cc: cidrd@iepg.org, nanog@merit.edu
At 10:15 AM 6/7/96 -0700, Bob Hinden wrote:
>I couldn't help but notice how much address space BBN has:
>
>>4 Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. (SATNET)
>>8 Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. (BBNCCNET), listed as "temp" since 1992
>>46 Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. (NET-BBNNET)
>
>It would be nice if they (BBN-Planet) would renumber into a much smaller
>block. As one of their customers who renumbered to get a larger block, I
>find it hypocritical that they are asking their customers to renumber when
>they have not done it themselves.
>
>Bob
>
Perhaps BBN is waiting for the Internet Draft
<draft-ietf-cidrd-mktbased-alloc-00.txt> to become an RFC.
[Come to PIARA BOF at IETF to discuss.]
If so, these As could be worth millions of $. Best to let them alone for now.
--Kent
