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Re: IP allocations, renumbering, and RFC 2050
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () mhsc com>
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 20:28:05 -0700
At 08:33 PM 10/7/98 -0400, Scott Gifford wrote:
We have a customer who is in the process of moving from MCI^H^H^HCable and Wireless to us. They have been using MCI/CW for a while, and need time to renumber their equipment, have their customers change places they have hardcoded IP addresses, etc. A quick read through RFC 2050 (IP Allocation Guidelines) talks about this situation in section 2.1: The ISP should allow sufficient time for the renumbering process to be completed before the IP addresses are reused. However, the rep they spoke with at MCI/CW seems to feel that the moment the connection is cancelled, the IP addresses may be reassigned to another customer, and they should not expect a grace period for renumbering. Anybody had any experience with this before? Is it reasonable of me to expect MCI/CW to be nice about the whole thing, and give their customer 6 months to renumber? Or is this what everybody does, taking the "should"s in the RFC very literally? Anybody had any luck with the appeals process on things like this?
Our most recent renumber involved paying for an extra three months of NetCom connectivity, until all our numbers and equioment were cleanly renumbered. ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:rmeyer () mhsc com>rmeyer () mhsc com Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- Marvin Minsky
Current thread:
- IP allocations, renumbering, and RFC 2050 Scott Gifford (Oct 07)
- Re: IP allocations, renumbering, and RFC 2050 Robert Boyle (Oct 07)
- RE: IP allocations, renumbering, and RFC 2050 Ron Stear (Oct 08)
- Re: IP allocations, renumbering, and RFC 2050 Roeland M.J. Meyer (Oct 07)
- Re: IP allocations, renumbering, and RFC 2050 Jeremy Porter (Oct 07)
- Re: IP allocations, renumbering, and RFC 2050 Bradley Reynolds (Oct 08)
- Re: IP allocations, renumbering, and RFC 2050 Tony Li (Oct 08)
- Re: IP allocations, renumbering, and RFC 2050 Karl Denninger (Oct 08)
- Re: IP allocations, renumbering, and RFC 2050 Jeremy Porter (Oct 07)
- Re: IP allocations, renumbering, and RFC 2050 Robert Boyle (Oct 07)
- Re: IP allocations, renumbering, and RFC 2050 Andrew (Oct 08)
- Re: IP allocations, renumbering, and RFC 2050 John A. Tamplin (Oct 08)