[7921] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Big Squeeze
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Jagielski)
Sun Mar 2 12:09:19 1997
From: Jim Jagielski <jim@jaguNET.com>
To: pferguso@cisco.com (Paul Ferguson)
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 11:33:50 -0500 (EST)
Cc: jim@jaguNET.com, nanog@MERIT.EDU
Reply-To: jim@jaguNET.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970302110015.006a02a8@lint.cisco.com> from "Paul Ferguson" at Mar 2, 97 11:00:17 am
Paul Ferguson wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Never said it wasn't a fact a life, just that it's a painful
one... And a disruptive one. Imagine the heartburn if a group with
simply one ClassB was required to totally renumber to another...
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