RE: FW: /8s and filtering

["Ejay Hire" <ejay.hire () isdn net>]

"This policy allows a downstream customer's multi-homing requirement to
serve as justification for a /24 reassignment from their upstream ISP,
regardless of host requirements"

-ej

-----Original Message-----
From: Harsha Narayan [mailto:hnarayan () cs ucsd edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 1:41 PM
To: Alec H. Peterson
Cc: Ejay Hire; nanog () merit edu
Subject: RE: FW: /8s and filtering

Hello,
  The policy says that a /24 of PA space can be given if the
customer can show that it has an immediate requirement of 25% of the
/24 = /26.

 That is the reason I asked if the multihomer has to be able to fully
utilize a /26=25% of /24 to be able to multihome.

Thanks,
Harsha.

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Alec H. Peterson wrote:

> --On Tuesday, December 10, 2002 13:08 -0600 Ejay Hire
<ejay.hire () isdn net>
> wrote:
>
> > Having a /24 doesn't indicate you are a network of any particular
size,
> > ARIN ratified a policy that allows multihoming as justification for
a
> > /24.
>
> I was thinking about PI space.  ARIN did in fact ratify a policy
stating
> that a provider may allocate a customer a /24 of PA space if they are
> multihomed.
>
> Alec, red-faced AC member
>
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