[38824] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: standards for giving out blocks of IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David R Huberman)
Sat Jun 16 15:05:35 2001
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 12:04:49 -0700 (MST)
From: David R Huberman <huberman@gblx.net>
To: Charles Scott <cscott@gaslightmedia.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Let me respond to Chuck with an example, just for clarity's sake:
EXXON, the gas folks, come to you and request a /20.
They are using this /20 internally (say, to assign IP addresses
to individual gas pumps across the US).
They demonstrate to you that they are going to number 1,024 pumps upon the
receipt of this /20.
They demonstrate to you that they plan to number 2,048 pumps total over
the next 12 months.
A few months go by, and EXXON comes to you and says that they have number
3,400 pumps, and are now over 80% utilized on the initial /20 you assigned
them.
You can now assign them additional address space.
You are not really justified to assign more address space to them until
they have assigned 80% of their /20. (There are real-world examples where
orgs need to request additional address space at the same time as
achieving 80%, but let's not let reality get in the way of textbook
examples!)
The size of the additional block you assign them should closely fit the
25%-50% requirement. (Again, real world examples tend to trend to fitting
the 50% requirement more than the 25% requirement, but so be it.)
/david
