Re: routes to hit 50,000 soon? or filter AS 7007....

[davidk () ISI EDU]

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.
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