[8839] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: routes to hit 50,000 soon? or filter AS 7007....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (davidk@ISI.EDU)
Fri Apr 25 17:50:52 1997
From: davidk@ISI.EDU
To: rpa@insnet.net (Richard Almeida)
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 14:31:13 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199704252106.WAA08495@aurora.uk.insnet.net> from "Richard Almeida" at Apr 25, 97 10:06:34 pm
Richard,
Richard Almeida writes:
>
> And, because of the way you get CIDR allocations in Europe (and probably
> everywhere else now)
> Join RIPE
> Apply for space for your own network
> This gets allocated from the beginning of a new /19 CIDR block
> Build NOC and 1st POP
> Then start applying-for/allocating customer address space
>
> I would imagine a very large proportion of "newer" ISPs have critical stuff
> in the 1st /24 of their 1st allocation ...
I know from the time that I worked at RIPE, that there were at least some
'weird' people that asked if we/they could start assigning from the top
of the /19 ..., and we accepted that. May be they were right after all ;-),
David K.
---
