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As part of Canadian Internet Community, we have been following the CIDR guidelines. We also do not route IPs from other CIDR blocks. Michael Gibson Sr. Network Admin - Netcom Canada -----Original Message----- From: Michael Dillon <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, May 06, 1998 5:13 PM Subject: Re: Routing Policy and http://rs.arin.net/ip-allocation.html >On Wed, 6 May 1998, Mark Kent wrote: > >> That is the wrong question to ask. The real question is who has been >> handing out 206.116/16 like they were dealing cards? A quick look >> at the announcments and in whois.arin.net reveals a bunch of /24 >> spread out over Canada. > >This is because historically, addresses in Canada were handed out without >regard to CIDR even after everyone else was doing CIDR allocations. A >couple of years ago the Canadian IP registry was shut down and allocations >since that time have followed CIDR guidelines more closely. If you want to >see an excellent example of the kind of things that used to happen, have a >look at "whois -h whois.arin.net 199.166.227". In 1994 I applied for a >CIDR block of two Class C's, i.e. a /23 and this is what I got. Look >closely now... If you still can't see the problem try writing both /24's >in binary one above the other. > >> Historically, and currently, the Canadians crowd the top of >> the Tony Bates cidr list. Why is that? > >Part of it is because of the above allocation problem but another large >part of the problem is a severe lack of clue. Not enough Canadians go to >NANOG meetings to learn how to run a network properly, especially at the >Canadian backbone providers. Even when there were 10 provincial backbones >within the CA*NET consortium, the knowledge transfer just did not take >place. In some provinces like Ontario the network operators seemed more >interested in socialist politics than in running a network properly. > >Things are a bit better now in some regions and in some companies but >there is still a lot more knowledge sharing that could be done. > >And if anyone wants to flame me for this, please don't inflict it on the >NANOG list. Instead, come see me in person this weekend at the 12th annual >Canadian Internet conference http://www.net98.bc.ca and tell me what a >twit I am. I'll even buy you a beer. > >-- >Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting >http://www.memra.com - E-mail: [email protected] > > >
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