[6171] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internic address allocation policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Germann)
Mon Nov 18 23:41:53 1996
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 23:33:10 -0500
To: Matt Ranney <mjr@wacky.eit.com>
From: Eric Germann <ekgermann@cctec.com>
Cc: web@typo.org (Wayne Bouchard), nanog@merit.edu
I know of one large ($1 Billion+) retailer who was assigned 5 Class C's two
months ago by MCI for a DMZ network, one for each division sharing the
link. 1270 addresses is a hell of a lot of proxies and email gateways...
At 08:00 PM 11/18/96 -0800, Matt Ranney wrote:
>Wayne Bouchard writes...
>>
>> 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?
>
>Do larger providers have to play by the same rules, or do they all
>still have so much extra space from the pre-CIDR days that it doesn't
>matter? I ask because I know of at least one BBN customer that less
>than a year ago was assigned 3 /24's for their 30 machine network.
>--
>Matt Ranney - mjr@eit.com
>
>This is how I sign all my messages.
>
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