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> And I guarantee that if you receive address space from the InterNIC, it will be larger than a /32 :-) Kim > Someone just wrote me and said: > > > I would be happy to remove a lot of out /24's if the NIC would allocate a > > larger than /32 to renumber into. The NIC does not thing this is as > > important. > > According to what I know of InterNIC's policies, they will be glad to trade > aggregated address space for unaggregated space, _in_roughly_equal_parts_, > and assuming that you have efficiently used your old space. > > It's not that InterNIC doesn't consider this important -- rather than they > are not in the routing business and the routability of addresses is not one > of the criteria they can look at when making allocations. > > So don't put it to them in terms of routability, just SWIP your suballocat- > ions and write a nice polite letter showing how some parts of the world will > be better off and no part of the world will be worse off if prefixes X and Y > are returned to the pool in exchange for prefix Z (of size ~X + ~Y). > > If you do _that_ and are told to go pound sand, I'd like to hear about it. > But I know people who have successfully done what I'm suggesting so I really > do not expect you to fail. > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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