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Re: Hey, anyone who wanna help improve the net stability?

  • From: Craig A. Huegen
  • Date: Thu Sep 05 15:34:55 1996

On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Gordon Cook wrote:

==>Is the swamp then bounded by class c addresses warranted as routable when
==>they were handed out?  Are you saying then that the defaultless core
==>routability of class c's from the swamp is, as of now, guaranteed?

They were never warranted or guaranteed as routable.  However, the NIC
didn't place any warnings that space smaller than a certain amount may not
be routable, and at the time, no one had placed filters on route
distribution like SprintLink's.  The NIC opted to revise its wording on
the application around the same time SprintLink placed its filter on new
allocations.

For right now, the routability of class C's is not guaranteed out of the
swamp; however, I know of no route filters out there which will restrict
them.

/cah


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