[44039] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 214/8 and 215/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Thu Nov 1 11:43:14 2001
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
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To: smd@clock.org (Sean M. Doran)
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 17:12:16 +0000 (UCT)
Cc: nigel@titley.com, nanog@merit.edu, smd@clock.org
In-Reply-To: <20011101162933.9D265C791D@cesium.clock.org> from "Sean M. Doran" at Nov 01, 2001 08:29:33 AM
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> | These were delegated on the return of nets 49 and 50, along w/ about a
> | /9 of mixed /16 and /24 space. e.g. an overall reduction in the
> | amount of space. Jon Postel, as the IANA, approved the transfers.
> | At that time, ARIN did not have control over legacy delegations.
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> So I seem to be missing something that keeps me from understanding this --
> why didn't they just turn off the /9 of mixed /16 and /24 space and
> keep the two pre-existing historical class-As, which would have more
> fully followed the BCPs?
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> Sean.
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legecy hardware/software. Fully classless kit was just becoming
common at the time. (cisco did not support it across the product line)
--bill
