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Re: Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations


From: Yakov Rekhter <yakov () cisco com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 96 10:35:05 PST

Daniel,

  > Would the RIPE NCC provide such non-aggregatable allocations
  > irrespective of how many hosts would be covered by such an
  > allocation ?

Sorry, lack of clarity because of failing neurons.  
What I meant to say was "1024 CIDRable allocations".  
Or simply "allocations". 

The point is that we will guarantee that our allocation policy will
create no more than 1024 allocations per /8 and therefore not
necessitate by itself more routes than that.  Currently our allocation
sizes are /19 - /16.  If you think about it a little you will see that
it is easy to achieve.

And just in case: Yes the minimum allocation is /19 irrespective 
of the number of hosts covered. Note: allocation != assignment.

OK, so just to make it clear, if a customer would come to the RIPE NCC
and the customer has just 1 host you would still allocated him /19 block.
Correct ?

Yakov.


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