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Re: CIDR,Sprint and the Big Guys.
From: Paul A Vixie <paul () vix com>
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 22:38:23 -0800
Here now shows that Sprint is getting a /15 from the nic and that they can now server more customers, move their ips around with little problem, etc. But what about some other ISP? Can they get a /15? Nope.
Right.
But I bet you that if Sprint wanted to or even MCI for that matter, they could get a /14 or a /13 from the nic.
Wrong. Sprint and MCI have a track record with InterNIC and they have shown that they can efficiently use the next-smaller allocation size.
How can we solve this problem? How can we make sure that everyone has equal access to IP addresses to make IP addresses usable around the Net, save on router memory etc?
Anyone who shows that they will be an efficient suballocator will get larger blocks as they fill up their initial smaller ones. If IANA did as you suggest and allocated huge blocks to everybody who can fib together a business plan, there would not BE any unallocated address space by this time, yet the number of reachable hosts would be lower than it is now. A great deal of work went into the InterNIC's allocation policies. Before you offer to rewrite them, you should do some homework and find out how they got to be the way they are now.
Current thread:
- CIDR,Sprint and the Big Guys. Christian Nielsen (Apr 04)
- Re: CIDR,Sprint and the Big Guys. Avi Freedman (Apr 04)
- Re: CIDR,Sprint and the Big Guys. Christian Nielsen (Apr 05)
- Re: CIDR,Sprint and the Big Guys. Paul A Vixie (Apr 04)
- Re: CIDR,Sprint and the Big Guys. Marc E. Hidalgo (Apr 05)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: CIDR,Sprint and the Big Guys. Jim Fleming (Apr 05)
- RE: CIDR,Sprint and the Big Guys. Michael Dillon (Apr 05)
- RE: CIDR,Sprint and the Big Guys. Tim Salo (Apr 05)
- Re: CIDR,Sprint and the Big Guys. Avi Freedman (Apr 05)
- RE: CIDR,Sprint and the Big Guys. Michael Dillon (Apr 05)
- Re: CIDR,Sprint and the Big Guys. Tim Salo (Apr 05)
- RE: CIDR,Sprint and the Big Guys. Jim Fleming (Apr 05)
- RE: CIDR,Sprint and the Big Guys. Jim Fleming (Apr 05)
- Re: CIDR,Sprint and the Big Guys. Justin W. Newton (Apr 05)
(Thread continues...)
- Re: CIDR,Sprint and the Big Guys. Avi Freedman (Apr 04)