[48362] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP renumbering timeframe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Bicknell)
Thu May 30 13:11:30 2002
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 13:10:58 -0400
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
To: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
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In a message written on Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:27:49AM -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> I'd be mildly concerned that people would see "free IP blocks" and start
> using them even when not necessary. I think allocating them a /24 from
> this block only when they have demonstrated need, and don't have any other
> ARIN assigned blocks, would be far more efficient.
Since the goal is to reduce paperwork, I'm not sure about 'demonstrated
need', but I could definately endorse "you get a /24 with your ASN if
and only if you have no other registry assigned space assigned to you".
I specifically exclude provider allocated space, as I'm assuming the ASN
goal is to multihome.
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