Allocation of IP Addresses
Dorian Kim
dorian at cic.net
Thu Mar 14 04:39:52 UTC 1996
On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, David C. Kovar wrote:
> This strikes me as being discriminatory against the smaller ISPs. The
> customers are looking for stability and, from their point of view, being
> forced to renumber several times along with the ISP is unstable and costly.
> They'll look to ISPs who will not force them to renumber, the ones with a
> /18 or smaller already.
There always will be disadvantages of being small. This is true in every
market.
> Do you truly believe there is no way to avoid the forced renumbering
> problem for the smaller ISPs?
There is no way to avoid renumbering. Every other plausible proposal I've
seen have been renumbering under a different guise.
-dorian
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