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Re: Comments on " Guidance in the Assignment of Internet Numbers"

  • To: Daniel Karrenberg < >
  • From: Christian Huitema < >
  • Date: Tue, 03 Jan 1995 10:39:18 +0100
  • Cc:
    Local Internet Registries in Europe < >
Daniel,

Thanks for your detailed comments. I believe that we agree on the two goals of
developping connectedness and using the address space reasonably. It may well
be that the IAB praise connectedness above all, while down in the trenches you
have fight off a number of unreasonable demands.

There is one phrase in the example you give which rings a lot of alarm bells.
"For technical reasons we cannot use VLSMs or subnetting." This is just
unacceptable; the goal of connectedness cannot be achieved without supporting
CIDR, i.e. both subnetting and supernetting. The reference to RFC 1466 in the
draft already imply this technical requirement; it may be a good idea to
explicitly restate it.

Christian Huitema
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