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Re: Draft internic ip allocation doc

  • From: bmanning
  • Date: Wed May 17 12:26:08 1995
  • Posted-date: Wed, 17 May 1995 05:55:55 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> There is an easy solution -- do not allocate less than /16s.
> This would relieve InterNIC from caring about IN-ADDRs
> (and will do good things for routing, too).
> 
> --vadim
> 
>     All ISPs receiving /16 prefix blocks from the InterNIC will be responsible
>     for maintaining all IN-ADDR.ARPA domain records for their respective
>     customers.  The InterNIC Registry will only be responsible for the
>     maintenance of IN-ADDR.ARPA domain records for those CIDR blocks with
>     prefixes longer than /16 issued directly from the InterNIC.
> 

Of course that violates the NIC charter as being the NIC of first and last
resort.

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--bill