[38820] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Scott)
Sat Jun 16 12:31:54 2001
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 12:31:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Scott <cscott@gaslightmedia.com>
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Please note that the RFC2050 reference to 25% and 50% is for end user
address space, while the 80% refers the ISP's level of assignment of their
allocated address space. I was refering to the confusion some ISP's
exhibit in requesting %80 utilization by end users prior to additional
assignments.
Chuck
> > James:
> > That's for allocation to ISP's. The RFC refered to end user utilization
> > of the address space (see http://www.arin.net/regserv/ip-assignment.html).
> > I've seen some ISP's incorrectly quote the 80% utilization to customers
> > and expect them to achieve that before assigning them more IP address
> > space.
> >
> > Chuck