[7917] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Big Squeeze
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Sun Mar 2 11:04:41 1997
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 11:00:17 -0500
To: jim@jaguNET.com
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 10:48 AM 3/2/97 -0500, Jim Jagielski wrote:
>
>It's the renumbering part that I think gives people the most
>heartburn... By the time you get "big enough" to warrent your
>own block, you've got at least 32 ClassCs of which, I'm betting,
>at least 28 are "given" to LAN-connected customers. This is
>a _major_ headache not only for the ISP to go thru but also a
>major headache to force your customers to go thru. That is, what
>I think, is what really is most painful; that by the time you
>are big enough to have your own block, you're too big to want
>to renumber: Catch 22
>
Que sera, sera. Renumbering is a fact of life.
See: RFC1900, RFC2008, RFC2071.
- paul
