[58015] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Get as much IP space as you ever dreamed of, was: Re: Looking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Tue Apr 29 10:18:22 2003
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 09:15:55 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304291035480.27272-100000@MrServer>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
>
> Further to my earlier post.. a large global private network requiring unique
> space at many sites, they use 9/8 .. why not use 10/8 ??? (renumbering reasons
> aside that is!)
>
> Recall the counter argument from Stephen Sprunk was that it needed a per site
> allocation from a registry, and yet these guys are managing just fine without
> it!
>
IBM uses the registry. They are alloted a 9/8, even if it is legacy. I
do not know what addressing peers to the IBM networks use. I presume
that some of them are not 9/8 addressing.
-Jack
