Approach to allocating netblocks

jkinz at kinz.org jkinz at kinz.org
Wed Jan 14 18:39:27 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:34:29AM -0600, Jason Biel wrote:
> Customer should have the forethought to request the right amount of space to
> include for growth.

hmm, as a vict^H^H^H^H former associate of a few startups I can
assure you the customer will almost never know how much space
they need for growth, or when.  :)

> If customer requested more space, rather than grow into another adjacent
> block, we would just assign them an additional block elsewhere in the
> overall subnet, and route both blocks to them.

Seems reasonable as long as it can be done whenever the customer
discovers they really do need more space. 

Jeff Kinz




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