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On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 04:00:35PM -0700, Michael Dillon wrote: > addresses to anyone who is legitimately multihomed? Why can't ARIN > maintain a register of companies who are multihomed and tag their IP > allocations, of whatever size, as "portable". I suppose we could sidestep > Sprint and use the swamp addresses which Sprint filters on a /24 boundary. > But why can't we just carve off a chunk of 214/8 and "register" it to > organizations who need portable space in chunks smaller than /19? > > This just makes too much sense to me. Michael, I am technically oriented, but my experience is at the local ISP level, and I've never done any kind of infrastructure planning. So maybe I am missing something here, but I still fail to see why on God's green earth Progressive Networks needs a /19 besides the fact that they might not get announced otherwise. They aren't going to *use* that many addresses. Is Sprint the only backbone with a policy of not announcing small blocks? (I'm not responsible for the maintenance of any BGP feeds, either. ;) -- I'm not paranoid. Nor are any of the people who are out to get me.
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