[34538] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP Question - how do work around pigheaded ISPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Feb 10 09:55:53 2001
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: "Craig A. Huegen" <chuegen@pentics.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 06:53:41 -0800
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>> Return the 172.16.0.0/16 block to the registry (ARIN, APNIC, RIPE or if
>> no one else IANA) and apply for multiple appropriately sized CIDR blocks
>> under the current registry allocation guidelines.
> While I fully agree with this approach to deal with the issues mentioned,
> it will only exhaust the new address space more quickly. Why should we
> give up on 128/2?
because when the registries have different allocation policies in 128/2,
the isps will follow. just as we did in old A space.
randy
