[344] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CIDR FAQ
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Siegel)
Thu Aug 17 21:03:47 1995
From: Dave Siegel <dsiegel@net99.net>
To: bmanning@isi.edu
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 18:03:40 -0700 (MST)
Cc: HANK@taunivm.tau.ac.il, yakov@cisco.com, paul@vix.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199508172157.AA12236@zed.isi.edu> from "bmanning@ISI.EDU" at Aug 17, 95 02:57:40 pm
> > >Does that mean that all the internet registries no longer allocate
> > >/24 (or longer) prefixes that have nothing to do with the actual
> > >Internet topology (these prefixes aka "portable addresses") ? Perhaps
> > >folks from various Internet registries would be able to answer this
> > >question.
> >
> > I assign /22s to ISPs. When they use them up I give them another /22.
> > Private companies that show a need for a /24 are assigned a /24.
> >
>
> Ah. here is the rub. When you ISP buddies come back, you should ask
> them to return the origianal /22 for a /20. That way, the total size
> of the routing system stays the same!
And every time they need to expand, even using the same provider, they have
to renumber their whole network?
I sincerely hope that was sarcasm I detected in your post...
Dave
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