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Re: Internic address allocation policy

  • From: Eric Germann
  • Date: Mon Nov 18 23:43:05 1996

I know of one large ($1 Billion+) retailer who was assigned 5 Class C's two
months ago by MCI for a DMZ network, one for each division sharing the
link.  1270 addresses is a hell of a lot of proxies and email gateways...

At 08:00 PM 11/18/96 -0800, Matt Ranney wrote:
>Wayne Bouchard writes...
>> 
>> Heartily agreed.. Its far far easier to get address space when you've
>> got the docs to prove you need it and you've allocated
>> intelligently. They require you to justify need, why shouldn't you
>> require customers requesting multiple class Cs to justify need?
>
>Do larger providers have to play by the same rules, or do they all
>still have so much extra space from the pre-CIDR days that it doesn't
>matter?  I ask because I know of at least one BBN customer that less
>than a year ago was assigned 3 /24's for their 30 machine network. 
>-- 
>Matt Ranney - [email protected]
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