[6166] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internic address allocation policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wayne Bouchard)
Mon Nov 18 22:32:44 1996
From: Wayne Bouchard <web@typo.org>
To: kozowski@structured.net (Eric Kozowski)
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 20:11:57 -0700 (MST)
Cc: matthew@scruz.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199611190251.SAA11514@chaos.structured.net> from "Eric Kozowski" at Nov 18, 96 06:51:07 pm
Heartily agreed.. Its far far easier to get address space when you've
got the docs to prove you need it and you've allocated
intelligently. They require you to justify need, why shouldn't you
require customers requesting multiple class Cs to justify need?
> My suggestion is to ask for a /18, with the rest of the /16 reserved for
> your use. Religiously SWIP or RWhois your allocations. Get network
> engineering documents from your customers _before_ you assign address
> space. Yes, all of the above is a pain in the ass. But that's life.
