[4050] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hey, anyone who wanna help improve the net stability?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Thu Sep 5 15:43:46 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: cook@netaxs.com (Gordon Cook)
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 15:31:47 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: vixie@wisdom.home.vix.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.94.960905145324.10907T-100000@unix1.netaxs.com> from "Gordon Cook" at Sep 5, 96 03:04:45 pm
Gordon, please make your messages easier to read or people will /dev/null
them. It's really not clear what, in the message below, are the new
questions/points...
Avi
> Avi pointed out:
>
> The swamp is basically the old "Classful" address space.
> What Sean did was to say "You can use your old 'Class C's
> but I have to stop the table-size growth in *new allocations*".
>
> =========
> Then apparently I have misunderstood what the swamp was/is. I thought it
> was just an unaggregated area and didn't understand why. Is there text
> somewhere that explains very clearly the swamp and the policies attached
> there to?
>
> Is the swamp then bounded by class c addresses warranted as routable when
> they were handed out? Are you saying then that the defaultless core
> routability of class c's from the swamp is, as of now, guaranteed?
>
> Of the class cs from the swamp how many are now being routed at the
> defaultless core? HOW MANY ADDITIONAL CLASS Cs FROM THE SWAMP ARE THERE
> FOR WHICH THE OWNERS COULD DEMAND ROUTING?
>
> In other words are these 5,000 new class c's just the beginning? Or are
> they, hopefully the end?
> =========
>
> Avi writes:
>
> Umm, Gordon, read what Paul said.
>
> He was saying that he suspected that the new /24s are in the swamp.
> And even Sprint listens to any /24s from there.
>
> The swamp is basically the old "Classful" address space.
> What Sean did was to say "You can use your old 'Class C's
> but I have to stop the table-size growth in *new allocations*".
>
> Avi
>
>
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