BGP Question - how do work around pigheaded ISPs

Craig A. Huegen chuegen at pentics.com
Sat Feb 10 05:39:30 UTC 2001


On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 09:18:40PM -0800, Sean Donelan wrote:

==>Return the 172.16.0.0/16 block to the registry (ARIN, APNIC, RIPE or if
==>no one else IANA) and apply for multiple appropriately sized CIDR blocks
==>under the current registry allocation guidelines.

While I fully agree with this approach to deal with the issues mentioned,
it will only exhaust the new address space more quickly.  Why should we
give up on 128/2?

/cah




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