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Re: number of unaggregated class C's in swamp?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Sat Sep 30 01:12:51 1995

Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 22:20:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@junction.net>
To: William Allen Simpson <bsimpson@morningstar.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1629.bsimpson@morningstar.com>

On Fri, 29 Sep 1995, William Allen Simpson wrote:

> > From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
> > > This is interesting, showing how bad assignment has been even
> > > _after_ CIDR.  5K sites migrating providers in 2 years.
> >
> > I believe the NIC was assigning out of 198 before CIDR went into
> > effect.  I got a single C directly from them in late 1993, as I recall.
> >
> RFC-1366 was October 1992!  And of course, an internet draft before that!
> 
> Another fine example of the NIC level of competence.

In August 1994 I applied for a /23 CIDR block. I received 2 consecutive 
/24's instead from a NIC other than the Internic.

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