[355] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CIDR FAQ
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ross Veach)
Fri Aug 18 13:19:04 1995
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 12:11:16 -0500
To: HANK@taunivm.tau.ac.il (Hank Nussbacher)
From: rrv@uiuc.edu (Ross Veach)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 4:57 PM 8/17/95, bmanning@ISI.EDU wrote:
>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!
If everyone did a clever job of allocation, and the ISP in question had
grown quickly enough, you'd be able to expand the that /22 into a /20 at
the very same address because the next 3 /22s would still be available.
But I've already beaten that horse...
