[8461] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARINANOG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip J. Nesser II)
Mon Mar 31 16:12:52 1997
From: "Philip J. Nesser II" <pjnesser@martigny.ai.mit.edu>
To: michael@stb.info.com (Michael Gersten)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 15:56:16 -0500 (EST)
Cc: JimFleming@unety.net, naipr@arin.net, ckuehn@nsf.gov, gstrawn@nsf.gov,
lsundro@nsf.gov, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0wB6Mq-000ZC8C@stb.info.com> from "Michael Gersten" at Mar 29, 97 02:12:00 pm
Michael Gersten supposedly said:
>
> Jim raises an extremely good point.
>
> Why not start ARIN off by giving it a /8 to work with and see how well
> it will actually work?
>
Guess what. That IS the plan.
The IANA controls /0 and will retain control of it. ARIN, just like RIPE
and APNIC will be given a /8 to work from.
> Lets face it, there is only ONE /0, and giving that to ARIN might not
> be a good idea if it doesn't work right. By giving them a /8, they
> will have to compete with other ways of assigning IP addresses, and
> demonstrate that they actually can work.
>
> Just like a would-be ISP has to start with a /24 and work up...
>
> Michael
>
